This sculpture started with a large piece of serpentine that I got from someone, and that had been worked in before. It had been gathering dust in my studio for a while, actually it’s just a bit too heavy to handle easily. But with plenty of possibilities.
And so the search for a new sculpture often begins, with the material. I first removed the old traces, and created an open space. The idea arose to work with the contrast between tightly worked and rough unprocessed. Well, nothing new under the sun. And I regularly work with combining materials. The search for a suitable stone led to this special ochre-colored Portuguese marble.
For me, this sculpture is also about celebrating the power of nature. To show how beautiful such a natural material is. And with a sculpture to enhance the space around it.
