The Ferryman’s End
The Buddha’s parinirvana Victoria’s Way, Roundwood, Co Wicklow, Ireland
The ferryman’s craft is his capacity to create
difference. The sculpture of the Ferryman’s End is a
metaphor for the individual who is losing touch with the real world, personal
or general. Because the sense of realness and the release of energy (read:
enlightenment) resulting from the fusion of ‘this’ with ‘that’, therefore
between differences, happens as after-affect of contact (i.e. of touch), loss
of connectivity results in increased feelings of un-realness and loss of
energy (experienced as depression), which in turn results in the fading of
identity (and self-meaning) and increased unhappiness (the latter telling the
individual that he or she is failing/dying. |
