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James Walton

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Concept:

The Illusionary Ascent

We all feel we must be going somewhere. That there's a higher order. That there's an afterlife that is heavenly. We choose to believe in purpose and direction, a reason for our existence. It gives meaning and hopefully comfort to our lives. We yearn for eternal life after death. But it could really be just a painful joke of perspective and perception. The reality may be a cold, humorless different story. My monument plays with the concept of the ascent. In fact it goes nowhere.

This will be a three dimensional relief with the perspective continuing to infinity. But it will not be an actual staircase. Because idiots would try to walk up it, fall off it and die.

Bio:

James Walton is an astronomer, painter, jeweler, philosopher and general student of life. He's thinking seriously of taking up fishing.