Phil Moody - Three Ages of Man

mixed media
2001

Partnership: Department of Education
Location: 3 floors of Tillman Hall back stairwell This work is composed of photos and text, which are meant to explore the three ages of humanity. Contained within the installation, which comprises all three landings of a stairwell, are 35 images which vary in scale and include a variety of color and black and white photographs.

Artist Satement:

The Three Ages of Man

The installation in this stairwell is based on the classical concept of The Three Ages of Man, as developed within my personal interests in this state's textile industry. Childhood on the first floor gives way to adult working life on the second (along with an appreciation for our transience on this earth). The third floor is self-reflective, with the realization that, what we became later in life was already being formed in our younger days.

Text and imagery, except where noted (the first floor nursery rhymes which are attributed to 'anonymous', 'traditional' and Robert Louis Stevenson, the second floor Psalm 102, and the third floor poem by William Wordsworth) are by Phil Moody. The project was completed under the Clemson Art Partnership Project, through the Department of Art and the School of Education.

Phil Moody
January 2001