Explore the Concept of this artwork.
In 2015, Drapell explained the piece to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as follows:The central form 'male' is tall, impenetrable; the central form 'female' is shorter and receptive. From the left and from the right 'the forces of living' compress both sexes with reality (concrete walls). The three glass boxes represent our intelligence, our feelings, our emotions and our rationality.
On sunny days, the sun plays in them with that extra uplift, on cloudy days everything is back to 'normal.' The pairs of Plexiglas rods cast into the concrete walls represent our curiosity and symbolize our desire to see beyond the concrete reality of our limited world.In our explorations of the universe we sometimes succeed, or pay with our blood (the fluorescent red Plexiglas).
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation