Raku Fired Ceramic
26" dia. x 12" deep
2000
When I was approached by the Canadian-Hungarian "The Thousand Year Committee" to participate in a celebration of the thousand year anniversary of the crowning of the first king of Hungary, I decided to show the two sides of the man: Vajk - Istvan. I don't think it was an easy change from Shamanism to Christianity… I don't believe Istvan was a happy king as he had to eliminate his own friends and relatives. But time proved him right. Most probably, the pagan magyars would have crumbled under the Christian pressure during the past one thousand years…