The Pollard Tree and Red Boots - After Rodin's Strident Man (circa 1900)

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This portal is a cross section of a pollard tree with its core removed. 
This peculiar structure is attached to a disc-like base (no roots!) and, should anyone dare to step onto this precarious threshold, it will rock/destabilize things. On this threshold there is an alluring, yet accusing!---- pair of red boots!

One is overwhelmed by a sense of absence and the loss of an essential vitality when engaging this portal. What has brought about this peculiar aberration of the Tree of Life in our 21st century?

To try and begin to answer the above question I have evoked Rodin’s ‘Striding Man’ (circa 1900) in my title but taken the liberty, in hindsight, to call it more aptly ‘Strident Man.’ I did this because Rodin’s ‘Striding Man’ (aesthetic considerations aside), seemed to me to epitomize how the masculine principle set off to ride rough-shod over nature in the 20th Century.

This was achieved by ensouling the Second Industrial/Technological Revolution (late 19th century – early 20 century) with a strident masculinity that didn’t take into consideration the attributes of the feminine principle//psyche to bring a balance to essential progress.