The Art of Charles Pilkey

EARTH

Stone is a harsh mistress; It will humble the proudest carver. A cold, elemental beauty; such stuff as worlds are made of. The stuff of the earth. The entire drama of human life in all its heroic folly is played out on a stage of stone. And when the final curtain falls, when lights are dimmed and actor and audience depart, all that remains is stone. Like the earth, stone abides.

Sei    marble   7' long Kitakyushu, Japan

Hope     granite   7' high   Kimchon, Korea

Islands in the Stream marble  6' high  Cararra, Italy

Peace Table   granite   4.3m high United Nations Korean War Memorial Park   Pusan, Korea click to see more

Twilight    slate  30" long

The Forgotten Country granite   7' long Sozo No Mori Park, Fujimi, Japan

Sleeping  City (front and back) granite  7' long Kimchon, Korea

The Beginning    granite and steel  6' 5" high

Pleistocene stone and steel  5'  high

Cherokee  steel and stone  9 'high Design based on Cherokee gourd art. Stones from rivers near Cherokee reservation in western North Carolina.

The artist is the lover of nature. He is therefore her master and her slave.

Rabrindranth Tagore