Colossal Heads and Cultural Continuity

"I like to think of the Brickheads as colossuses, their bodies still buried.  Rooted in thousands of years of ceramic and sculptural practice, they might emerge very slowly by a process too gradual to be noticed in our lifetimes." 

 

"James Tyler: Colossal Heads and Cultural Continuity" - Essay by Jan Garden Castro from Photo Catalog, Brickhead Sculptures by James Tyler