| Artist Info |
| Name:
Gordon
Bok |
| Town
of residence: Camden,
Maine |
Brief
Bio:
In a life spent working around this coast (and this
country), I've collected some interesting people and
experiences. Some of these I've managed to process:
they've found voices in songs, poetry, writing and instruments
I've designed.
Carving seems to find experiences that have fallen through
the cracks, perhaps because I often carve in silence.
So some of these pieces represent the processing of
some long-buried memories. Others are simply honoring
the people I grew up with, the work they took pride
in, that told me I could take pride in my own.
As I've let the songs guide me over the years, so I
let the carvings inform my life.
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| Website:
www.gordonbok.com |
| Represented
by: |
Artist's
Statement:
Where do you go, little herring,
What do you see, tail-and-fin?
Blue and green, cold and dark, seaweed growing high,
Hills a hundred fathom deep, where the dead men lie
Dogfish eyes, mackerel's eyes, and they hunger after me--
Net or weir-I don't care-catch me if you can.
Herring Croon
copyright
1965 Gordon Bok
Some call this world Gaia, and say it's a living, breathing
organism, doing what it can to survive. Well, so is mother
ocean, eh? And when she turns another face to you, remember
that she-like you-is only doing what she has to, to live
here.
Where have you gone, little herring,
What have you seen, tail-and-fin?
Cold and black, dead and dark, seaweed torn away
Draggers staving everywhere, drug this garden dry
Pair-trawl, midwater trawl-God, they hunger after me!
Tore my home to hell and gone: no more place for me.
Herring Croon
copyright
2006 Gordon Bok
| Description of Art Work |
| Dimensions:
27"
x 7" |
| Medium
Used: Driftwood
Pine |
| Title:
"Mother
Ocean Mourns Her Children" |
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