Wishing Well (Bone Dry)
Kiwi Sculpture Garden 2009
Materials:
Porcelain Clay, Rocks, Earth
Two folk traditions combine in a dry stone well containing porcelain wishbones. In an age-old custom that has all but lost its meaning, coins are offered up at wells filled with the water necessary for life. Here I've replaced the water by bones. These bones refer, not to morbidity, but to the act of making a wish—an act that is in essence one of optimisim, and imagination.