Aspirations & the Willingness To Change

Aspirations & the Willingness to Change

Year: 2020-21

Dimensions:  3m Circumference Height: 2.5m Width: 1.62m   Breadth: 1.4m
Mass: Approximately 600kg
                    Selling Price: R1 950 000   -  in bronze
                                            R  680 000-00 - in resin

I will only be creating 3 in this Edition.
The first edition has been cast and is on permanent display at De Handelspos Sentrum in Hartebeestpoort.
Grateful thanks to Werner Wenhold - developer & patron of the arts.

If interested, please get in touch with me regarding Foundry casting times.

When we returned from seeing incredibly beautiful, oversized sculptures adorning seemingly ordinary spaces in Italy..I wanted to give it a go...overwhelming at times but all absorbing, glad I did.
The chameleons are coming to life...change, transitioning, camouflage, slow and steady, shifts - in thinking and being and living... the piece is entitled

"Aspirations and the Willingness to Change" points to a new space in time and the need to employ slow and steady shifts in thinking, being and living, to realize it.

Chameleons?! Although my work is always figurative, I often incorporate symbolic icons. These include goldfish, apples, cut-out paper dolls, flippers, stilettos and, as in these examples, chameleons... For me chameleons represent dual energies that make up the individual, light/dark, masculine/feminine, while the chameleons themselves point to transition, change, adaption and self-preservation.