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Jane Hook
Wobble
wood, aluminum, steel and bronze
45" x 10.5" x 10"
About the Work
Wobble is a sculpture that actually wobbles. The earth is our shelter, the trees make our air and Wobble is the place of our existence on an increasingly precarious edge. Wobble is about our propensity to cut down trees to build boxy objects and then to replace trees with metal structures. The rings of the tree are numbered and stop at the point of its demise. Wobble is a sculpture about place and time.
About the Artist
Jane Hook works towards an articulation of her subjective experience within today's contemporary world. In her eyes, humanity is a narcissist and all of its energies go into sustaining its sense of self. Having spent most of her working life as a psychotherapist, she has had the privilege as well as the burden of witnessing the atrocities and resilience of humanity, simultaneously compelled and repelled by the realities of our human condition.
Her work is firmly entrenched in explorations of relatedness: to self; to other; to the world around us; and to how we live and understand our place. Her choice of material, scale, and method shift with her exploration of expanded meaning.
Her sculptures are simple yet poignant statements, moving from grand experiential landscapes to explorations of the more subtle. She works mostly in the realm of the figure.
