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edge of the four-sided piece which is i enclosed by a cobalt blue globe, created by Eric Kvarnes of Oldway in i Sperryville. Mr. Doyle rents his studio, which is on the property at Oldway, from Mr. Kvarnes. He was I in the glass shop one day looking i around when he saw the globe and knew that was what he was looking for to add to his piece. They tried difi ferent sizes of cobalt globes, but the l first one he found was the right one. Wired inside it is a light bulb, “an i electric flame flicker,” which flickers 1 very subtly.
Surrounding the globe is a steel 1 cutout of the earth on the south side, an eagle rising on the rabbit side, a dove in flight on the frog side (symbol of the spirit of man rising to meet the spirit, said Mr. Doyle), and an eye enclosed in a pyramid on the wolf side. “The piece taught me as I worked on ij/To me it is alive,” said Mr. Doyle.
All of ♦his »1eads upward into a magnificent spreading tree, whose roots extend below the globe and animals. Each branch has been meticulously sculpted, and this tree part of the piece took three of the six years’ work. The leafy sections of each branch are feathery and delicate looking, as if they would quiver in the breeze were they not made of steel.
Extending downward from the four comers in the center is sculpted water, dripping into a bucket and overflowing at the base. Mr. Doyle said that the bucket is a symbol for humanity. “The tree rises from it as well as gives to it,” he said.
He looked for a wooden slatted bucket which he could use in the sculpture, but after a few years of fruitless searching, he decided he would have to make it himself out of steel. Now he agrees that the bucket needed to be steel all along.
The “Tree of Life” is just about ready for Mr. Doyle to pack up and ship off to art shows, and he will be applying to several shows by sending in slides of his work. He hopes to display it somewhere in Rappahannock, though, before shipping it off anywhere.
He has completed two other large metal sculptures since his graduation from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and several smaller ones. Both of them were purchased by companies which display them in
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