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The Wheel of Life
Pierre Joseph Landry |
As he started finding himself restricted he still had lots of energy and lots of drive. So he started
channeling his energies into other things. One of the things he did was, he started carving wood
sculptures. So over the course of several years he carved all kinds of things from what I
understand. But lots of little figurines and figures of all sorts. Then he did a complete bust of
himself. He set up mirrors all around him and he did a complete likeness of himself. Which I've
been told, I've never seen it, I think it may have been destroyed in the fire at the Cabildo. But I
was told that it looked exactly like him. But he did all of these wood carvings and one of the
things he did was he assembled them into a story of the cycle of life.
It starts with all the major, I
think there are seven stages to it, but it's the stages of life that starts with birth and ends with
death.
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Second three details
Pierre Joseph Landry |
It's education and reaching maturity, business, the whole aspects of going through life.
What's interesting about that, that in itself is not that fascinating, but what is fascinating about it is
he was completely self-taught. He was a complete amateur, he just picked up a pocket knife and
said hey I'm going to make this thing happen. What's fascinating about it is the level of
accomplishment that he was able to achieve, just sitting on his front porch with his pocket knife.
That is where my tie, and that's how I feel really related is because the things that, I feel a direct
relationship with him because first off he was giving expression. He was carving something that
was coming from his heart. So it was a physical expression, a physical manifestation of an
expression, that he was able to create, and he did it on a very high level, and totally unschooled in
form.
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