The pear is multi-faceted and ever evolving within Sam’s work, taking on varied, complex roles. They serve as both stand ins for the vulnerable human form and monuments of human experience. The pear accepts whatever role it is given, taking on the random nature of fate.
In "Under Passing Clouds", monumental stone pears have been sliced apart and sections of the severed pears float through the sky, blending into the clouds. The sliced pears attempt to maintain their wholeness; however, they will never return to their original form.
A shrine of hope appears in the form of a single baby pear balancing on the sliced monument. A mirror is leaned against the pear on the right- hand side. Faint sketches of two figures running are reflected in the surface. The pears mirror and respond to the lost human spirit. They are similarly broken, seeking wholeness and safe-haven.
Lilly Harvey (Guest writer)
BAK a Day, April 28, 2023
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How wonderful to have pears a-pear as part of the "Figuring Out" series if only as a cameo a-pear-ance.
The Bak commitment to the Pear as his personal visual language to raise so many unending questions about the meaning and purpose of life is refreshing.
Sectioned pears are placed in the landscape as a reminder of the ancestor pears that first appeared in 1966. whole ordinary parts of the Pear family provide memory of the disorientation and devastation.
The canvas with futures running are a reminder that all of humankind has been caught up in this degradation of humanity.
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