Tortoise Series: Broken

Broken people… At some point in our life journey each of us finds ourselves “broken”. It’s during the “dark nights of the soul” that we find what we are made of. How we endure the trials determine who we are on the other side. Do we let it break us and become bitter or do we learn from it and become better? It’s up to each of us to choose. The tortoise carries all kinds of broken people and ideas on its back, and at the front, Christ, and a crown full of keys symbolizing the idea that we each hold the keys to open the prisons of our own making and we can have help if we ask.

This sculpture comes with the wooden base I made which is a piece of old hickory found in the Sonoran Desert where I grew up.