One Man's Chakras
Chakras are well known in Eastern spirituality and eosoteric relighions. Chakras can be thought of as subtle energy centers with seven main ones running in the core of our body from the sacrum to the crown. In this series the repeated use of three materials, wood, concrete, and steel are used in each individual sculpture with each sculpture representing one of the seven chakras.
Steel and concrete are used in many of man's modern skyskrapers and modern structures, as so is wood. But wood can also have a natural organic quality. Interestingly, chakras are thought of to be very subtle, almost undetectiable to the untrained. Yet I've used the very dense and heavy materials of concrete and steel in these conceptual chakra sculptures; a juxtaposition as if to make the chakras tangible
Each chakra serves a function and are ever changing in their states. One Man's Chakras are a snapshot of one's chakra's in a fraction of a second in time. Remember that in the quantum nature of chakra's one's energy center's can change and transform in the blink of an eye
Note: Click on any image to bring up a series of images for each sculpture.
1st Chakra
The 1st Chakra as at the base of the spine and is known for grounding and connecting to the Earth. This sculpture is a very solid chair. If one were to sit in it their feet would be firm on the earth and their spin aligned vertical. The back of the chair is a heavy concrete pillar that provides a grounding and sense of connection to the Earth, with a slight angled top to remind us of our connection with the higher realms.
2nd Chakra
The 2nd Chakra represents our sexual energy. This sculpture embodies the natural male trait of masculinity and dominance with a phalic tower. Yet the tower is connected to it's counter part with a steel web connector suggesting that the male isn't complete without the feminine. All humans embody both masculine and feminine traits ... perhaps it is the female energy in a towering concrete form?
3rd Chakra
The 3rd Chakra is our power center. In this sculpture the concrete tower represents the body with the wood being the focus of the spining energy. The wood has many subtle angles and gives a feeling of rotating or spining just like our power center.
4th Chakra
The 4th Chakra is our energectic heart. Here in this one man's chakras the heart appears to be burned and attached with unyielding steel rebar to heavy dense concrete filled with all our storeis, childhood punishment, negative beliefs and past live's ... but this is only one possibility of the heart's existence that may at any moment collapse into estactic joy of the now free of the pain body.
5th Chakra
The 5th Chakra represents the throat and our power to voice on earth. All sound is vibration. This 5th Chakra sculpture vibrates sensuality. The subtle curves of the contrect tower are attractive and soothing. The wood in it's organic form is intriquing and also sensual with it's subtle curves.
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6th Chakra
The 6th Chakra represents the thrid eye. This sculpture has a powerful ancoring concrete form as the physical eye; viewed from the top gives us an implied shape of our physical eyes. Connected to the physical eye is our spiritual eye. The spiritual eye intuites all things of the ether beyond our physical senses. In reality our physical eye actually sees everything in inverse and likewise this sculpture has the materials of the high reaching tower in reverse as it is made of wood and not concrete like the other chakras in this series. When looking have you every asked what are you looking for?
Images coming soon.
7th Chakra
The 7th Chakra is known as the crown chakra, our connection to heavan and all things wonderful. What if a spiritual seeker became entralled with getting to heaven with ideas of mysticism and magical realms. Maybe this is true. Maybe heaven or our higher self is another constructed reality of the mind, and yet another box? A black box, unknown but contained ... and here we have a black concrete cube or box as the 7th Chakra.