Wildlife

"Balance of Power" African Cape Buffaloes with game tracks around waterhole. Bronze on walnut.

w.24"/60cm
"BALANCE OF POWER"  African Cape Buffalo  Bubalus caffer
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"BALANCE OF POWER"  African Cape Buffalo  Bubalus caffer
I began modelling this sculpture in 1974, sitting underneath the large Acacia next to my house in Francistown, Botswana in response to my own generational and corporate stoush. I had seen two buffaloes having a fight next to a drying up waterhole in the now Tarangiri National Park, Tanzania, and I based this sculpture on this observation. I re modelled it three times - this 2011 version is the last. Now the buffaloes are more powerful, the fight more intense, the negative space represents the drying up pan of water, the giver and sustainer of all life.



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