Home and Away by Robert Leverich from Washington. Granite, 2014
“I aim to make sculpture that is allusive and invites contemplation; that’s where the meaning arises..” – Robert Leverich
Castine
Artist Statement
My idea for Home and Away began to take shape the last day or two of my visit to Castine. “Home” was a word I heard a lot during my stay, and “away”–the places people went off to, and returned from–drawn back to Castine. I think the two words are deeply evocative for everyone–of different places and frames of mind, and the pull between them that we all feel at different times.
I aim to make sculpture that is allusive and invites contemplation; that’s where the meaning arises. I wanted this work to invite you to move down to and through the stones, to follow the paths with your hands as well as your eyes, and perhaps to sit between the curves of the last stone, to contemplate the work and the movements on the water between Home and Away.
Artist Biography
Bob Leverich grew up on a dairy farm in western Wisconsin not far from the Mississippi, in an era when rural kids had the whole world to range over – pastures and fields, orchards and woods, hills and streams, in all seasons. There was always work to do on the farm, but it afforded a closeness to the natural world that still informs who he us and how he thinks about much of his work. He became an architect, and a potter, and a woodworker, and a sculptor, and currently teaches visual arts at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.