The Fossil

The Fossil

And the Earth opens up

To reveal three hands

With stone wrapped around them

But who understands?

Hard to the touch

I grabbed at it

To realize that something

Was just amiss

The moment I noticed that something was wrong

The earth moved again

And I was gone.

The fossilized hands. They may be reaching for each other in want of safety or a giant is grabbing an only half calcified hand trying to break out of the stupor while a third has given up. The fossil paints a dark future and the end of humanity in the light of either hope and relationship or anger, sorrow and fear. All depending on the mirroring of emotions from the viewer . 

But it also shows that nature and life itself keeps on living despite of our wrongdoings. The flowers still bloom under the protection of the stones and inside of it.

Stoneware clay. Sculpted, bisqefired, oxidewashed, glazed, high fired in an electrical kiln