36"H x 66"W x 6"D
Raku Fired Ceramic
2000
I made sketches of this work 15 - 20 years ago. I was listening Bela Bartok's "Cantata Profane", a coral work based on an old Hungarian folk song. It is about an old hunter who did not teach his sons occupations but rather to hunt for a miraculous deer stag. It turned up that his beloved sons became deer. I know that most of you will not understand the words of the coral work, but the emotions of this tale will come through in Bartok's work. (I have the English translation of the original folk tale, if you want to read it.)