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Humanity...enduring the storm

Posted by Ron (Saint Louis, United States) on 29 April 2008 in Art & Design and Portfolio.

Knowledge, Care and Technology by Daniel Lawrence, 1983, bronze – This piece celebrates the blessedness of creation, highlighting the concept of interaction between dissimilar parts to produce unity. Said Lawrence, "At the time I was introduced to this project I was reading a book with a Biblical text that dealt with defining a human self – what a self is. I discovered a very interesting correlation between the author's definition of a self and the theme of [Saint Louis University] Hospital (the original location of the work). The concept put forth in the book was that we are primarily vessels – containers of life that express life by means of three distinct capacities. The three qualities that make up a self are the ability to know, the ability to love, and the ability to desire. Knowledge, Care and Technology obviously fit right over this model of human self. It seemed quite fitting and praiseworthy that the structure of an institution dedicated to the preservation and saving of life would succeed in being the same expression as an individual human organism."

This is the second in a series of three HDR images of the sculpture as viewed from different angles.
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Canon EOS 40D
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