Concept
This dramatic bird form is one part of two sculptures Pat did to honor the Mibutu Pygmy tribe in the Ituri forest of the Congo . They are called "sustainability seats" because they are shaped so that someone of a small stature could sit in them and commune with nature.
The Mibutu are currently working on a project to conserve the Okapi, a “flagship” ungulate of the Congo .
Pat had the opportunity to travel to the Congo and live and work with the Pygmies in the initial stages of this project. He has never forgotten the efforts of the Whiteoak Conservation Centre in starting this program, and the culture of conservation that the Mibutu exemplify. They have a harmonious and sustainable relation s with their natural environment, and they preserve it with very few resources.
Sustainability seat one and two nest together as male and female abstracts. |
