This sculpture is currently on exhibit at just outside of the entrance to The Bennington Museum (Bennington, VT). Its placement there is part of the North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show which continues throughout this summer.

About the sculpture: This steel and copper sculpture is part of my "Perfection is Elusive” body of work. This piece, in particular, expresses the difficulty of repairing what has been broken. It symbolically, illustrates the challenges that humankind is facing as we attempt to repair the damage we have done to our planet.

Perfection is elusive ... At times, our planet seems to achieve a measure of perfection; a stasis if you will. A condition in which great masses and great forces find balance and harmony. Quiet and beauty abound.

The human mind also has its moments; mathematics, philosophy, humanism. Great thoughts and understandings. These lead to great achievements. Among these, objects and events of beauty and importance.

Inevitably both natural perfection and human perfection face disruptive forces.

This sculpture, a pure geometric form, "interrupted” by a huge vertical gash, is a tangible representation of these thoughts … the near perfections of earth and of humankind, in the face of the powerful enemies of perfection."

AND, then an attempt to hold it together despite the challenges.