"Earth to Earth"

This blog depicts works in progress. To view completed works by this artist, go to: www.lesliemartinart.com

Earth to Earth,

lilac seedling, soil, plaster

(2017 - in progress)

14x10x8"

The cupped hands of three generations of Oklahoma women are cast in soil, positioned in a circular formation. The hands support soil and the uprooted seedling of a lilac plant, the daughter of a plant that had come from the garden of the great-grandmother of this family circle. The hands stretch the lilac to the sky, symbolizing this elder has left this earth and transitioned to another.