Happy New Year everyone!
I’ve been super busy, mainly with stuff, you know that brain-numbing detritus that is completely tied up with reality, awful concept, truly awful. Spare me reality any day…
OK so I’m obsessed at the moment with stone work, stone patina, stone decay, stone mossy damp dark etc etc, all things stone.
Alongside that I’m kind of thinking about the essence of life, the spark of life and the fever of it…
So I did this…
So it’s the head of a statue in Rome, he has bronze wings and his pose is to look down on the people.
Ok so this is based on a real life model, upon which is super imposed artistic ideas in that ancient culture of idealised male beauty…preserved in stone.
So you have a living person, mortified by the stone, then you draw the stone face and suddenly the dead are brought to life, as it were.
Who was he, how did he live and die, how old was he and did he have a long or short life…all these questions arise when we contemplate mortality, including our own.
Whatever is going on, this is where I am now, contemplating big issues, like what is it to be alive and what is it to be no longer alive, or have your life drain away….
In fact that’s a great idea on its own, being turned into stone, feeling it and watching it…
