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First Adoption
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The First Adoption Series of bronzes has grown
over time to represent many aspects of our relationship with animals much
as I have personally felt them.
The subjects, Paleolithic Woman and the Wolf in various phases of the
domestication process, are analogies for our varied connections with other
living creatures Domestication of animals was one of
mankind's greatest technological leap and surely a woman's nurturing
impulse had to be the starting point.
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Predators was the first sculpture I created and was
actually inspired by the book "Women Who Run with Wolves" by
Clarissa Estes Pinkola. I was very taken by her stories of women
connecting with their true "wildish" natures and was personally
at a point in my life where I needed major changes to be true to my own
aspirations.
In the Paleolithic story this piece depicts the early relationship between
mankind and the wolf as one of mutual wary respect between two of the more
powerful predators the world has seen.
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Predators |
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Home from the Hunt
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Home from the Hunt is a recent addition to the series that
addresses the heart of happy play we share with our beloved pets...little
different than the scenes we experience in our own living rooms |
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The relationship evolves and the woman becomes one of the
pack with her wolves as they work toward a mutual defense
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United Front
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Farewell
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Just as all relationships must end, so too
this first special bond. Could her grief and loss have been any
different from yours or mine? |
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I placed a pendant on each woman in the series in order to
place the figures in time and differentiate them from Native American
figures. The pendant is taken from actual archeological artifacts
found throughout Europe and dating back some 25 to 30,000 years ago.
This figure also symbolized the nurturing feminine principle that must
have been key to the process of domestication.
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Goddess Pendants
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Alpha Pair |
Alpha Pair, my most recent work on Wolves
illustrates the perpetual dance of Yin and Yang. |
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Dani Harman Zack, Sculptor
