December 2020. Bronze. Dimensions: 4 × 18.8 × 9 in (10 × 48 × 23 cm).
strainer: A major river hazard in kayaking/canoeing. It is created by a manmade or natural obstruction such as a tree, root system, fencing, or guard rails. To be avoided at all costs.
Like others in the Pyxis Awry series this piece comments on a country adrift, but through its river metaphor subtitle “river jam break”, suggests my positive feeling about the release of the much pent-up energy we witnessed in the recent tumult, and more importantly, the resulting renewed determination for reform, moving us “down river” towards something better.
John VA
December 2020. Bronze. Dimensions: 4 × 18.8 × 9 in (10 × 48 × 23 cm).
strainer: A major river hazard in kayaking/canoeing. It is created by a manmade or natural obstruction such as a tree, root system, fencing, or guard rails. To be avoided at all costs.
Like others in the Pyxis Awry series this piece comments on a country adrift, but through its river metaphor subtitle “river jam break”, suggests my positive feeling about the release of the much pent-up energy we witnessed in the recent tumult, and more importantly, the resulting renewed determination for reform, moving us “down river” towards something better.
John VA
