Ouroboros #2
No Longer Available
Completed
2024
Medium
Soapstone and glass on cherrywood and steel base
Dimensions
12"X12"X10"
Description
Whether you like snakes, or hate them, they are a vital and magnificently beautiful part of nature. In creating this piece, I was inspired by the image of an Ouroborous. In antiquity a snake eating its own tail was an alchemical symbol of change and cycle of life. My version has the tail rebelling against being eaten. I take this as the "Now" fighting back against the "Past," refusing to go quietly into an uncertain future. Spending hours working on a sculpture depicting the archetype of continual change, of course, makes one consider the current state of flux that our society is in and humanity’s relationship to the natural world that provides for us. Simply consuming all available resources, as we have done for centuries, has put us in a place where the security of the future depends on the choices that we are making now. The snake can no longer take for granted that its tail will be there for the eating.
About this Artist
Eric Olson
Eric Olson in an Associate Professor at the State University of New York-Oswego teaching classes in science education and as well leading a studio art class examining science and art as complimentary modes of problem solving. Professor Olson’s research interests range from effective pedagogies and curriculum models to the nature of consciousness and quantum foundation of reality. As an artist he produces work in a variety of media including paper, wood, alabaster, soapstone, copper, marble, serpentine and steel, with the primarily subject matter relating to science and math.
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