Held
Betsy Delzer
Every time I create a piece for the Farley Center I spend time walking through the woods and green paths, gathering inspiration from the way the land feels. I ask it, “What are you calling me to create?” And then, I respond.
This piece was inspired by a walk through the woods where I kept noticing the way the forest floor held the trees that had fallen. As if to soften the descent, the many branches and trunks of all sizes that had eventually given in to gravity lost their stature, tipped toward the earth, were caught, and:
held.
In this piece I’m exploring the line of the horizon and it’s relationship to the rising and setting of the sun; the way our bodies rise, fall, and are held in our living and dying.