William Perillat is a self taught artist who produces unique figurative wood sculptures based in Expressionistic style. His pieces date from 1980 to the present.
Dualism Emerging from the Tao
1995
Manzanita
H; 24”
In certain Buddhist mythologies, the Tao is represented as an old gnarled tree. Expanding on this theme, two distinct textures define an emerging yin/yang presence arising from the singularity. A feminine form in diamond-tuck motif stands enveloped, caressed, and penetrated by a masculine form in basket-weave. Inside the feminine vessel the woven male-motif is seen to unwind into three straps. Thus, in the unraveling of the masculine by the feminine, the dualism gives rise to the trine in the formation of the family.
