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Work for the Night is Coming by Charlie Brouwer locust wood, screws & preservative stain 10' x 8' x 4' |
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Location:
Corner of Market Street and High Street
Value: $3500 |
Artist
Statement I make art out of my feelings, experiences and imagination. This, I am convinced, is the only way beauty and truth can be approached. I am helpless to know what others will find to be beautiful or meaningful. I only know that when I have been able to glimpse beauty and truth through the work of other artists (in any of the Arts) it is because they have been honest, genuine, and real. So, I try to live my life well and through that living, when occasional transcendent moments occur, I try to hold onto them long enough to make something from them that will contain some of their essence. Occasionally, when working around the house and I am hurrying before sunset, the words to a particular song from my past come to mind. Once when this happened I realized that I was experiencing the metaphor-the night was coming but, so was THE NIGHT! I held onto the thought, or it held onto me, and it became this sculpture. The title is from the hymn," Work For the Night is Coming" by Annie Coghill(1864).
Charlie
Brouwer |
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