Sculpture Information

A Rosebud represents the innocence of youth. The candle base representing the sanctity of youth.

The Sky Marble block was initially going to be a tulip as it was yellow in colour. But as I carved, it was nearly all removed as it was only 2mm deep.  I continued in the theme of a flower, and it developed into this Rosebud.

Rosebuds hold amazing potential for opening to become increasingly beautiful and is therefore a metaphor for femininity or innocence before maturity.

In Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, “Rosebud” is the last word Charles Foster Kane utters on his deathbed. This enigmatic word becomes the central mystery of the film, driving the investigation into Kane’s life. The mystery is eventually solved when it is revealed that “Rosebud” is the name of Kane’s childhood sledge. Rosebud represented a time when he was happy as a child and loved unconditionally by his mother. His last moments of innocence and happiness were when he was playing on the sledge just before he was taken away from his mother to a life of material success where contentment and happiness illuded him despite his wealth and power. The beauty of growth is not in the delusion of wealth and status but in knowing we are truly loved.

Just read in The Guardian about girls trafficked and abused by Epstein to feed the sexual appetite of the elite. It is absolutely abhorrent that those with money can rob others of innocence for their own pleasure and manipulate them to be abused by others.