Glanum Fountain
41 in / 104 cm
Deep in the humid forest, from an old moss-covered stone flows a magic spring: Glanum. Helen, a young angel, is washing her hair. She is startled by a sudden noise. She stops and lifts her head. Holding her breath, not moving, she is listening, ready for anything.
A symbol of regeneration and purification, Glanum Fountain is located in southern Gaul.
Anecdote
Before starting work on this sculpture, I first had to find “the” stone (one weighing approximately 700 lbs) and bring it to the workshop. Visibly wondering about me, my neighbour, whom I didn’t yet know, kindly and very generously transported the menhir to my place.
Thinking I would roll it inside later, I asked him to leave the huge stone on the porch. After he explained that the porch wouldn’t support it, I improvised by using the couch. That is how an immense stone came to rule over the porch of my small house for three weeks, sitting on a living room couch in front of the entrance. To everyone’s great annoyance, we had to climb over the couch to enter the house. Everyone agreed I had really overdone it.
Treatment
Bronze (41in/104cm). Fountain. All the pump components are inside the bronze stone. Pumps of various powers can be installed and holes made according to the landscaping.
