2015

Carved Wood

66 x 33 x 36 inches

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This unfinished work featured a carved-soapstone caterpillar draped inside a grid-cocoon. Allan left a vivid sketch of a large butterfly's emergence atop the grid-work. It shows colorful wings decorated with human eyes, these ablaze with purpose, intelligence and joy..... He worked stone, the polar opposite of soft malleability, to form his caterpillar. One can ask what the sculptor intended to convey. Are human beings kept shackled and unrealized until they break out of their cocoon? Surrendering to inner creativity, do polarities offer potential for embodying personal transformation?