“The Circle Conversation” is a combination of art and community engagement. Meant to encourage sharing, healing and lifelong conscious awareness.

This project started as a memorial to my late son and has evolved into a pursuit to honor everyone who has navigated suicide, schizophrenia, depression, addiction and other brain chemistry challenges either themselves or with the ones they love.

This is a maquette of large 3 piece sculpture intended for City and State Art Commissions, Health Institutions, University Campuses, and the Private Sector. Proceeds will help fund The Circle Conversation vision.

See more: courtneycotton.com/the-circle-conversation.

The circle embodies transformation—energy that cannot be created nor destroyed, only transformed. We transform the world by transforming ourself.

The Design:
A 3 part foundry bronze sculpture resting upon a stone base conveying cyclic movement [energy].

Material: Foundry bronze metal enforces the idea of alchemy [the medieval forerunner of chemistry, based on the supposed transformation of matter] because it is a combination of tin alloy and copper.

Circle: represents energy - energy can not be created or destroyed, only transformed.

Symbology: The circle is a universal symbol with extensive meaning. It represents the notions of totality, wholeness, original perfection, the Self, the infinite, eternity, timelessness, all cyclic movement, God ('God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere' (Hermes Trismegistus)).

Three: represents Body Mind Spirit

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