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THUMB_Symbiosis
Artist: Yin Peet
Size: 50” Hx2’Wx3’D
Weight: 1 tons
Material: granite
Year completed: 2019
Continue the Thumb series, this Thumb carries two struggle human. It articulates human capability of empathy as well as self-centered competitive quality.
The figures are cartoon-like in juxtapose the realistic portray of the Thumb implying the “little” human psyche battle on the “giant” reality world”. Here the hand is oversized like all the other Thumbs work yearning for a better grip of the world.
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In this context the two people have to be in sink in action, either climbing up or coming down. The composition is built on the tension their symbiotic relationship, if one let go, the other will fall or if one is overly aggressive, both will fall.
This sculpture carries a message like a motto or a reminder warning us not to let the selfish mind gets ahead of the situation and throw ourself into a self-destructive situation.