Pentimento Gallery is happy to welcome back Francis Muscat with his latest works, entitled;
When a Tree Falls.
Bio-
Francis Muscat is a Sculptor that lives in Sunderland, Ontario. He has a passion for glass and combines it in sculpture with wood, stone and lights. Francis describes his work as a "reworking of material to give a new life with respects to its history."
The show will run from July 25 - August 18.
Artist's Statement-
Beavers do what beavers do and many trees fall.
The peripatetic Beaver decided to make my pond one of his homes.
This was an invitation for me to react, comment and eventually
take action.
The similarity in which the trees fell intrigued me, the way the
wood fibers where violently pulled apart spoke to me and eventually I needed to
make an effort to collaborate with my new neighbor.
Initially I felt that I needed to respond to the
destruction. There was anger and
sadness. This resulted in making comments about this destruction.
We as humans do the same.
The next approach was that of a builder, a house builder. Just
like the beaver, I too build houses, small houses and houses of the spirit.
This body of work deals with my interest in interaction with my
environment. I have been invited to comment on this change to my pond scene.
By leaving evidence of the beaver’s work on the felled pieces and
by borrowing I have rebuilt, rearranged and decorated.
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