Advising and Investing in Transformative Leaders
Advising and Investing in Transformative Leaders
Broken glass mosaic on recycled wooden door. 80 x 36 inches.
After working in the Jewish community, Cornish became familiar with the richness, warmth and the abundance found in the Tree of Life, the foundation of the piece.
For some, the Tree of Life is a source of calmness, peace, and fulfillment. But that is not a reality for many people who face inequity. Overlying the tree are watches spelling out the word privilege along with bronze children’s shoes symboling that the Tree’s fruits are only accessible to the privileged few.
The jarring juxtaposition of the discarded clocks of consumerist society overlying the archetypal tree shows that the promise of universal abundance is a reality to select few and myth to most others.
But Cornish plants a seed of hope suggesting the entitled children are reaching down to help bring up their less fortunate brothers and sisters to close the gap that society has imposed upon them.
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Loring Cornish’s work is featured in the Smithsonian, the American Visionary Art Museum, and across the cityscape of Baltimore. He began creating mosaics accidentally. While repairing the termite-damaged floor of his house, he glued broken tiles to the floor to cover the holes. Since then, he has gathered and collected materials off of the street and turned them into art. Cornish values simplicity within the artmaking process. He does not have any formal artistic training and says he simply thinks of an idea and develops it, allowing the materials and ideas to come together in a completed work.