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| Name: | Bridges of Exploration |
| *Dimensions: | 61inH 38inW 12in Deep | | Medium: | Bronze, Steel & Granite | | Price: |
$11,750. |
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| Artist's Biography |
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| Bridges of Exploration Description: | The unlimited curiosity of the human spirit drives humanity's quest for exploration into the realm of what is not yet known. Explorations occur constantly and continuously in all aspects of human existence. All explorations no matter how involved and technical are primitive in nature when compared to what comes after them.
Humanity has known flight for 100 years. The explorations of the Wright brothers, no matter how revolutionary for the time, appear rather primitive when compared to flight 100 years later.
Likewise, all explorations are bridges to all previous and all future explorations in an unending and ever expanding network defining the human experience. Explorers labor in anonymity until exploration culminates in discovery. But the possibility of association with revolutionary discoveries is not what drives the exploration - it is the curiosity. Curiosity: the need to how, and why, and why not.
When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, a discovery that would ultimately change the way humans lived, he tried well over a thousand different materials for the elements that would pass electrical current in a vacuum, emit light and not immediately burn out. Finally, he tried to carbon-tungsten element that worked and the world was changed. Years later, he was asked if he regretted all of the time wasted with well over a thousand failures. Edison replied with some indignation that they were not failures and a waste of time. They were in fact discoveries of what did not work.
Bridges of Exploration celebrates this boundless curiosity within the human spirit, this quest for knowledge simply because it is there for the discovery. The primitive figures are faceless and anonymous, standing on the bridges of all that has gone before them, and embracing the cusp of all that lies ahead that will define us and change us forever.
-written by Richard Pankratz |
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