THE FAMILY
(Commissioned by Sonia and Manuel Hernández)
Vanishing amid the alluring mesh of modernism and its many deceits.
A family's evolving saga rises and descends along the undulating surface of this sculpture which commences with a baby's birth and curves into a trinity of tenderness above as two young parents and their newborn child embrace to form a unifying posture all around this fluid sculpture's upper half. And brightly blossoming below it is the heart which every family's foundation must be rendered from. But turning from its fullness to pursue the hollow promises of modernist deceits we soon encounter on the other side a contour of diminishing support in which its structural integrity succumbs as love gives way to conflict, and disintegration leaves a mother and her child to face the future on their own.
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