The beauty of
the Lotus posture, the meditative outlook of the form and the light emanating
from within this sculpture, created a Haiku like poetry about Spirituality
which caught my eye, when I came across it, earlier this month. I decided to
seek out the artist Paige Bradley and try to find what inspired her to create
this iconic sculpture known as “Expansion”…
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| Expansion by Paige Bradley |
“From the
moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to
fit inside: A social security number, a gender, a race, a profession or an I.Q.
I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in, rather than what we
are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?
Would we still be able to exist if we were authentically 'un-contained'?”, says
Paige Bradley
Though Ms
Paige Bradley was off work, as she is in the family way, she was gracious enough
to have her office sent me the images below that I am sharing in this post. I
wish her all the positive energy to form within to create many more such
wonderful creations…
A Brief Note…
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| Expansion in different light |
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Paige Bradley
was born in Carmel, California Paige Bradley knew she would be an artist by the
age of nine. Immersed in nature and art, Bradley's fascination with the human
figure began early. She believed that through the figure an artist could speak
a universal language that is timeless and essential.
Paige Bradley
started drawing from the nude model by the age of ten and by fifteen was
studying intensely at university campuses during the summer months. Knowing
that she was naturally a sculptor, at seventeen she cast her first bronze
sculpture.
Annually,
Paige Bradley has several solo exhibitions, and her work can be seen in
selected galleries throughout the world. In 2004 she moved her studio from
California to New York City. In the spring of 2007 she moved to London, where
she currently works full time.
Paige's work
is full of dichotomies: both the beautiful and the ugly, the liberated and the
contained, the falling and the floating. She is always in control of form but
not imprisoned by its literality. The subject matter becomes the most important
-- not narrowly feminist, but rather humanistic betrayals of modern emotion.
Paige's work is becoming a valuable keystone for the missing figure in
contemporary art. Only in her early thirties, Paige Bradley's talent and
artistic achievements have already gained her much notoriety.
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| Ever growing sky line behind Sculpture Expansion by Paige Bradley |
To read more
about her and see her beautiful work, please log on to her website… PaigeBradley
I thank Ms.
Paige Bradley for her support and the images and wish her all the best.
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| The light within - Expansion by Paige Bradley |
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What a gr8 and appealing structure. Good post....
ReplyDeletea wonderful post...
ReplyDeleteI saw this sculpture(picture of it) on a website a couple years and wondered who created such an incredible work of art...
Thank you for sharing here...
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