Description
Clarity is a sculpture that feels discovered rather than made. Blending polished mahogany and weathered driftwood, Belizean artist Carl Gordon lets the materials guide him, a process he describes as the wood “expressing certain things” and showing him what it wanted to be.
At its heart, a carved human head sits atop a base, partly framed and partly revealed by the raw natural form or an adjoining driftwood. At first, Gordon saw only hints of what the piece might become, but as he set the woman’s head in place and listened to what the wood suggested, the vision grew clear.
This moment of sudden understanding gave the piece its name. Clarity reminds us that insight often waits within what we overlook, and that sometimes all we need to do is listen, shape, and see. The sculpture invites viewers to pause, look deeper, and find their own meanings in its blend of wild and crafted form.
