THE MAN AND THE OXES
This is a wood carving highly illustrative regarding my main theme. The human dialogue here with an animal well known to us, the ox (bull, cow).
A hairy man, looking like "sloppy", is the "central" element of the artwood (woodcraft). Watching the facial expressions, we would can think to be someone with over fifty years of age, timeworn life, messed hair, rough beard, sunken upper lip (characteristic altogheter linked to physical decay), mouth little crooked. All these symbols are interlaced to a forsaken person, that´s not appearing to be happy. However, this man seems, paradoxically, to be fully in harmony and balance centralized amid cattle figures. With eyes too closed, he appears is in full harmony with the oxes.
Wood: Peroba-do-campo (brazilian rare wood)
Dimensions: 60cm x 23cm x 4cm
We are always conditioned to believe that one human being, to achieve well-being, must have with specific attributes. None of these elements that we learn to see connected to the "true hapinnes" is present in the image of this man inside the sculpture, and even so, the misery and the unbalance seem to be far away from there. What we can see, on the contrary, is a mutual connection between human and an animal that has a tendency to be docile and peaceful. This peacefulness seems to be absorbed by this human figure, giving her comfort and stability.
All the differential advantage that man acquires in relation to other animals can still offer, for all, wisdom and humility. Wisdom to understand that, often, it is necessary to keep our attention in the animal life, to search what really matters (the balance). Humility to recognize the existence of secrets and knowledge that we never consider to find there. This complexity that exists in the animal-human dialogue can be easily viewed in this woodcarving .
All the differential advantage that man acquires in relation to other animals can still offer, for all, wisdom and humility. Wisdom to understand that, often, it is necessary to keep our attention in the animal life, to search what really matters (the balance). Humility to recognize the existence of secrets and knowledge that we never consider to find there. This complexity that exists in the animal-human dialogue can be easily viewed in this woodcarving .
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