Agave Dreams, 2015

Juilan Voss-Andreae

German
Stainless Steel and Mild Painted Steel

Texas Tech University
Biology Building
South side of building

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.