The Square 1915
Simon Blake
USA
Monuments, statues, cenotaphs, sculptures, shrines and memorials stand in every part of the world. They are ancient and modern symbols of achievement, greatness, power, inspiration, joy, grief and history. Recent events and the current political climate have ‘opened our eyes’ and there has been a collective conscious awakening of what these ‘monuments’ mean now. Are they a meaningful representation of history? Or do they continue to reinforce and remind us of man’s inner demons.
My collage piece for the "Empty Columns Are a Place to Dream" project is more dream like and subconscious in its interpretation. I saw the giant’s hand as a collective conscious ‘force for good’, reacting to the communal pain of one man’s decision. Like so many events in history, something that starts as a word, a feeling, an observation, a gesture manifests itself, echoing throughout history or until that history is questioned.
With all of my work, I hope the onlooker interprets the work in a number of different ways.
It is up to us as a human race to have these important conversations. We cannot change the past but we can meet it head on and decide which way to move forward.
Simon Blake
USA
Monuments, statues, cenotaphs, sculptures, shrines and memorials stand in every part of the world. They are ancient and modern symbols of achievement, greatness, power, inspiration, joy, grief and history. Recent events and the current political climate have ‘opened our eyes’ and there has been a collective conscious awakening of what these ‘monuments’ mean now. Are they a meaningful representation of history? Or do they continue to reinforce and remind us of man’s inner demons.
My collage piece for the "Empty Columns Are a Place to Dream" project is more dream like and subconscious in its interpretation. I saw the giant’s hand as a collective conscious ‘force for good’, reacting to the communal pain of one man’s decision. Like so many events in history, something that starts as a word, a feeling, an observation, a gesture manifests itself, echoing throughout history or until that history is questioned.
With all of my work, I hope the onlooker interprets the work in a number of different ways.
It is up to us as a human race to have these important conversations. We cannot change the past but we can meet it head on and decide which way to move forward.