This three-part sculpture was installed at the Sydenham Gallery grounds, just north of Kingston, Ontario, in 1989.   The initial project was more ambitious, but I soon realized that I would have to be content with a head and two hands.   The hilly grounds of the gallery were an ideal spot to install the biblical Saul, the tragic first king of Israel, now transformed and attempting to come out of the ground in a new world, and he acquires a suitable local headdress for the occasion.

The sculpture is made of wood, some parts  painted,                  

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and held together with glue and screws.    The head is perhaps 2’ high.   The three pieces were later exhibited at Kozak Gallery, Toronto.

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