Samuel Bak

Blind Chance A

   
Blind Chance A
  • 2017
  • Oil on canvas
  • 20 18 × 20 18 inches(51 × 51 cm)

  • Signed lower right: BAK

  • There is a Chinese legend of a blind man walking with a stick and he hears a bird flying behind his back and catches it. A Miracle? Blind Chance A.

    Often we talk of the chances of Bak's and the importance of:
    1. Quickness of responses and agility
    2. People you encountered and whether they were helpful or destructive.
    3. Being at the right place at the right time or the wrong place and disaster.

    This complex image shares four blind men with sticks or canes.
    Many dice making up a minefield of chance littered with birds.
    Who will survive? Why?
    Who will perish?

    It may all be Blind Chance.

    Bernard H. Pucker, BAK a Day, February 21, 2022

  • Themes:  Bird Dice Figure

Exhibitions

Ever Present: Candles and Chance in the Art of Samuel Bak 2022 St. Petersburg, FL

Chance in the Art of Samuel Bak 2017 Boston, MA

Literature

CHANCE in the Art of SAMUEL BAK Jeffrey Gantz 2017 Boston, MA, p. 13, ill.

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