52 Black Holes & One Thing that Escaped
Stoneware and Porcelain
28″ H x 9″D
$1200
“The universe only pretends to be made of matter. Secretly, it is made of love.”
-Daniel Pinchbeck
A black hole is anything but empty space. It is actually a huge amount of matter packed into a very small area. Think of a star ten times more massive than the sun, squeezed into a sphere the diameter of Tokyo. The result is a gravitational field so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.
But is that really true? For example, do feelings have mass?
I see feelings as the language of our bodies–how our bodies communicate with us. Emotions are our natural guidance system that tell us whether we are aligned with what’s right for us.
The nature of feeling has escaped us, because desensitization has spread to all of us. We wonder why nothing moves us to feel, and we are less sure what it is to have the full-blooded capacity to feel.
It’s a double-edged sword. The swirl of life, both personal and out in the world these days can be overwhelming and alienating. It’s a natural defense to lose awareness of the body, to disconnect, shut down or numb out in the face of something unpleasant. And yet, we sense something is missing. We undergo therapy, yoga, exercise, or other forms of self-help because we want to feel again.
The term “black hole” is often used as a metaphor for a place that it is hard to get out of, generally something containing a high concentration of unpleasantness.
In this sculpture, a glossy ring of brightly marbled color escapes from the gourd-like form’s matte black sgraffito-textured surface, showing that what infinitely expands and reaches escape velocity is love–the connection with everyone and everything, including the “black holes” of life.
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