Kluane (Sold)

This piece is named after Kluane, (pronounced, Klu-wa-nee),  Park, a Canadian national park in the mountainous region of the Yukon Territories. The eagle and bear are among the Yukon’s most common residents, outnumbering humans by a ratio of 3 to 1.

Kluane, like nearly all of my pieces, contains objects from the three major domains of the natural world, plant, animal, and mineral, in this case represented by the walnut base, the moose antler, and the stone respectively.

These materials were also selected to provide the viewer a wide range in tactile experience with form, texture, motion, temperature, and sound. For example, note that the  form of the walnut board, the moose antler, and the soapstone piece range from the simple shape of the wooden base to the highly complex curves and changing directions of the antler; also, note that the degree of motion shown by the individual parts of Kluane vary from the unchanging, static base to the dynamic eagle, which appears to be ready to burst into flight at any second; Similarly, texture varies widely from the roughness of the antler’s surface to that of the shiny, slick  bear;  also, temperature or the touch sensation of “coolness” surprisingly varies  from the apparent warmth of the wooden base to the downright cold of the smooth stone bear; and the ambient Sounds emitted from the materials as they are touched increase in pitch the from wood, to  antler, and stone.