How was this made? You're quite right, he'd never capture that kind of life without pouring the energy of his suffering into it.
I have no idea, but the smart ass in me probably wants to say with a chisel :D
It is a very old sculpture.
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It looks like a stone carving but I didn't want to make assumptions. I'm wondering what kind of stone. It would be something local to that area possibly. Ever done sculpture, in particular carving?
Yeah, part of my first year of university as an Art Student was "foundation studies". Even if we knew what we wanted to major in (for me it was New Media - a fancy name for computer generated art at the time... and Photography) we had to do a semester where we tried everything.
At the time I cynical and didn't want to, and probably approached with the wrong attitude entirely.
So I did:
Drawing (and life drawing)
Painting
Sculpture
Installation
Clay
Glass (which was a combination of glass blowing, casting, and etching)
New Media (surprise surprise)
and of course, Photography.
AT least I'm pretty sure those were all the displines I was exposed to. For sculpture I combined it with installation. I etched a piece of Perspex with razor blades, scissors, knives and ink, in a way that it would scatter the light in interesting ways.
Then, I projected a sequence of high resolution scans through that perspex. The sound was guitar strings being scratched, distorted and noisy and I got a "distinction". It wasn't a sculpture in the traditional sense, but I made the argument that if clay and marble and other substances are sculpture of the material world, then by displacing waves of air and photons in a controlled environment, I was sculpting with the room itself as the material, and as people moved through it and saw (and heard) the (intentional) manipulations of space that they themselves were "part" of the sculpture.
shudders at the flashbacks
They always seem to put one through the hoop jumping foundation of exposure to everything. Photography was my focus until I met sculpture and was immediately addicted to 3D. It's funny for me to come full circle back to doing photography for itself, rather than using it to document, show, and market sculpture, which will always be my addiction.
Brilliant complex concept. I am entranced reading your description of this. Thank you for sharing this.
Pretty cool that you got to work with glass. Glass and I have never been friends. It likes to hurt me and I like to break it. Aside from that, I love seeing work created by others.
I made it up on the fly as I was typing. 5 years of art school makes one good at waffling. Unfortunately, it doesn't provide a suitable amount of waffles to consume on a daily basis.
Out of context, this is an amazing sentence
Best way to wing it word flies.
I don't think it's intended to provide such sustance. Waffles make me think of maple syrup, that delicious liquid dark gold.
Now how does that figure? I'm wondering what visual images that brought forth.
The mysteries of my mind lie beyond locked gates. I have a dark sense of humour. I apply phrases inappropriately to the context in which they could be used.
I see. Dark sense of humour meet twisted sense of humour.
This sounds like a lot of fun. I read the creativity in that also. I like that. I'm kind of smirking at thoughts I'm having but not sharing right in this moment as I censor my fingerlips.
Tagging @strega.azure because I think they'll find the description of my installation interesting. :P
Wow, I missed this entire thread @holoz0r and @nineclaws 😳
BTW this post has now more comments than likes, and I don't think I actually can claim any of the credit here:)
Thank you @holoz0r for tagging me. Took me 'a second' to catch up:)
Not sure of material of an angel sculpture - can you upload picture again? When I opened pic few minutes back - it was working, and now I am getting only like 1/4 of top part of the pic. It can be either resin mixed with marble dust, or an actual marble. I would have to see thing up close.
It sounds incredible! I wish to see that:( Always hungry of new ways!
I actually love intermedia, and contemporary art in general.(not a banana stick with tape to the wall, not stuff like that) I don't like labels, they stand in the way of creativity.
On my year there was a guy who was 'sculpting' with theremin (he would create music with it, and the would use the graphic representation of the music wave, and then sculpted it with a thick wire) It was incredible. Very inspiring.
😂😂😂
I don't recall ever seeing a post on Hive with more comments than votes. There should be an award for that.
I see we're both wanting to know about that angel sculpture. I'm betting a type of marble that I'm not familiar with, or a type of limestone.
I've never heard of a theremin. Just took a quick look and am utterly fascinated with something new to me. Thanks for that. I just love learning something new. It's one of the three spices of life for me. No, dill is definitely not one of the other two. 😂
I feel the same way. You and @holoz0r should get some cool frames or something:)
Marble, definitely.
I love theremin! And for some reason, when I hear it - always Nina Hagen come to my mind, she is living theremin 🤣
What kind of cool frames or something should @holoz0r and I get? Probably he should, but I'm too far gone at this point.
Ha! I'm going to agree here. I have a lot of questions about old marble as a material. I've carved a few differnt marbles and found them to be most distasteful to carve.
I can hear why. I checked some out. Noting Nina Hagen to check out later. I see it's not as new of an instrument as I would have thought. There's something very unusual about it, but I haven't formed an idea as to what that is. I need more time.
Lately, it's been a touch of Dead Can Dance that I've been listening to.
It is called "The Angel of Grief", by William Wetmore Story. Here's a wikipedia page.
Here's an edited version of a chapter in my thesis where I spoke about this sculpture at some length.
Incredible, that is a huge piece of marble out the. Beautiful.
Very interesting read! The very idea of a cracked statue, of how time treats our loved ones and ourselves. It is really something.
Time changes not only outwardly, but has a huge impact on the shape of emotions that burn us living flame and then slowly - in time - quiet down. Time actually changes things. This is how it is, right?
Or, alternatively, do things just succumb to mass of time, like gravity making everything sag?