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I occasionally work series. Working with stone is slow. It’s so slow that sculptors can do up to 12 copies of their works in ceramic, bronze, resin... But I only do four. Like this I can work on each in a different way, reworking the curves depending on the way each material captures light. This will give each piece a real uniqueness, a particular emotion, and thus make it a unique piece.
The original, the alabaster has its translucency, its veining, the characteristic grain of the stone, its smooth polish. Bronze has that metallic quality, sharpness, hardness, reflections, that very special way of catching the light. And ceramics, well, ceramics will give me freedom. So much freedom.
White... Black... Or maybe even blue... Why not blue... I love blue. I love blue when I choose it freely, I hate blue when someone tries to impose it. And blue... combined with black is beautiful.
Two beings, male and female, become entangled. Two different and yet so similar fragilities. Lonely or altogether depending on the way you are looking at them... But are they really two different beings? Maybe just different feeling of the same being?
Originally it was a block of alabaster called "waste" of almost twice its volume, a lot of wreckage, water and earth ingress and then a terrible cleft. I love taking advantage of a stone's cracks and sublimate them. I used this cleft to embed these two beings one in another. Then I worked the curves till they become tense enough for the emotion to get sharp.
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Dimension approx: L=29cm, l=21cm, H=20cm
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