TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
Agave Dreams
2015
JULIAN VOSS-ANDREAE (GERMAN)
Stainless Steel and Mild Painted Steel
Biology Building
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Agave Dreams is a female figure, kneeling on the earth with
outstretched hands touching the ground. Sheltered between
her hands grows a live agave, a plant with a history of deep
significance to the native peoples in this area. Through her
gesture of blessing the plant, Agave Dreams encourages us to
question our attitude toward nature and the entire web of life.
The mindset of separating subject and object, of detaching
ourselves from nature, and of dividing the world into small
parts assuming this will lead to an understanding of the whole,
is contrasted with a holistic dream that seeks to integrate
human, physical, and spiritual needs with the rest of creation
by recognizing both as fundamentally one.