Open to Interpretation

 

The above image was my profile picture on Instagram until quite recently. Over the weekend I read a comment that described this as a naked trio sculpture. My first thought was that this was not a naked sculpture. Some might identify it as naked due to the colour but I don't feel the trio are specifically naked. The comment about the trio being naked did get me thinking. This sculpture is very much open to interpretation. Every person who sees it will not necessarily see the same thing. Where we are in life, what is going on for us and the type of thinking pattern we have will influence how we look at such sculptures. As well as various other influences such as our upbringing. If you are a spiritual person you are more likely to see the spiritual side of the sculpture such as the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. but if you are more secular and your thought pattern is more of a sexual nature you could identify the trio as naked. Or you might see something totally different to the spiritual or naked interpretation. Not knowing where this piece was photographed no perception of this sculpture is wrong.  That is the beauty of the human mind, everything we see can be interpreted differently, people can see different things when they look at the same item. 

It was only at the weekend that I identified the trio as representing the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I first seen this piece in 2020 during my first visit to Tearmann Retreat Centre in Glendalough and I had to take a few photos, it was a sculpture that I was drawn to and wanted to be able to look back on. I am not sure what exactly it represented to me at the time or what I seen. I think I simply seen three people embracing, 3 generations, or maybe father, mother and child. This Sculpture has become very important to me this year, to the point that I am trying to get a wooden version made. Right now it very much represents the inner child being held by the older teen and them both been held by the adult. Three hurting beings holding each other. Or maybe it is the adult holding the child and God holding the adult as she holds the hurting kid. 

And there is the other joys of the human mind, our perception of something can change, what I saw in 2020 when I first encountered this sculpture I no longer see. I am in a different place five years on so I am looking at it differently.