Name:
James Walton
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Concept:
The Illusionary Ascent
We all feel we must be going somewhere. That there's a higher order. That
there's an afterlife that is heavenly. We choose to believe in purpose and
direction, a reason for our existence. It gives meaning and hopefully
comfort to our lives. We yearn for eternal life after death. But it could
really be just a painful joke of perspective and perception. The reality
may be a cold, humorless different story. My monument plays with the
concept of the ascent. In fact it goes nowhere.
This will be a three dimensional relief with the perspective continuing to
infinity. But it will not be an actual staircase. Because idiots would try
to walk up it, fall off it and die.
Bio:
James Walton is an astronomer, painter, jeweler, philosopher and general
student of life. He's thinking seriously of taking up fishing.
