Two new sculptures in the garden

Many people have admired Rafael’s scluptures in the garden and he has brought two additional magnificent pieces for the final weekend’s show. These pieces are large, powerful and spiritually vocal. Stand in front of them for a minute or two and your sense of what is real begins to change – you feel that your ancestors are with you – that spirits are present in each bush and leaf – that there is a pulse of lives lived and lives yet to come that we sense, as subtle as one of the flows of energy detected by a sage of Chinese medicine.  These are the latest works: