This piece originally came from an attempt at getting over art block. I’ve found rain frogs just completely cure it and can get me into a new creative groove. It didn’t take long for me to realize that I’ll never be able to top this piece. It is my magnum opus, my pièce de résistance.
I call it The Tower, partially because it’s literally a tower of three rain frogs stacked on top of each other, and partially as a nod to the tarot card. In tarot, The Tower is one of the scariest cards that can be drawn in a reading, as it symbolizing a time of sudden, potentially violent upheaval and dramatic transformation, whether it’s welcome of not. The original card is also sometimes called “the lightning struck tower,” and it features an ominous tower being struck by lightning as it reaches towards the heavens like the Tower of Babel. The card often features people, usually the figures of a man and a woman, falling to the ground, apparently having jumped from the windows that are now aflame.
While my tower of rain frogs looks solid and sturdy, it’s components sporting looks of obstinate determination, all it takes is one frog deciding it’s finished and the whole thing will come toppling down. Crisis and chaos, but with the potential to become something even greater, like another tower but with four rain frogs.
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