Lost and Found

I imagined this as an as-yet-undiscovered mystery waiting in the woods with little hope of ever being seen. Imagine wandering and coming across it just when you consider yourself lost. I have staged this garish representation to make the reality of what is unseen seem seen. Can you see the iris/pupil bulging under the eyelid?
Conjured without a model, the head's style and color reference Greek bronzes recovered from the sea. This is a confabulation of Greek Satyr, Roman Faun, Christian Demon, and the Underwood Deviled Ham of childhood memory. It is an overdetermined symbol. Heaped and layered by cultural history, it is, “the navel of a dream.”
This character type has given form and narrative to humankind’s wrangling relationship to nature. It has characterized the breadth and contradiction of that struggle. He manifests the untamed, dangerous, lustful, playful, and duplicitous, but also the pastoral, peaceful, gentle, and benevolent.
The web of culture and history is in a sense shared, but imperfectly. It is a web of connections, sticky, somewhat structured, but multivalent, non-linear, imperfectly shared, easily damaged, and possibly misleading.
Ceramic, paint, and plastic foliage. 14 x 13 x 7 inches