“Timeless Offering” by Mark Bamburak

Stella Tyler’s works situated throughout BCCC’s campus all depict women in the nude. The one work of art that feel most refutes the claim that woman are passive is the sculpture titled “Timeless Offering”. The statue depicts a woman standing tall on a stone in water, reaching up towards the heavens while holding what appears to be, a bowl of fire. The elements which are present on the sculpture can be interpreted in many ways. The first is the way in which Stella Tyler positioned the woman’s body. She is standing upright while gazing upward. Second, the woman is standing on a rock surrounded by water. I view both of these elements as a symbol of strength because standing tall and a rock are both representations of strength and power. I feel that Stella Tyler purposefully positioned the rock in the water because water is a universal symbol of serenity and the fact that the rock is above the surrounding water signifies that the woman is overcoming the notion of passivism.

I feel as though the sculpture was placed in the garden behind the Bucks campus because there, the features seen on the sculpture coincide with its surroundings. The woman in the statue is seen in the nude, which represents the natural state of human beings. The surroundings of the sculpture are plants, trees and other various kinds of vegetation. All of the elements surrounding this work of art are all natural and found in nature.