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Life

Life
Artist's Studio,
England
(Height 15ins 40cm)


Life


HEIGHT 15 INCHES (40CM) POLISHED STAINLESS STEEL 1996


"The miracle of replication"

Like all children, I was fascinated by snowflakes, and this naturally lead to crystals. I made a wooden copy of a cubic pyrite crystal from Spain, in an attempt to understand and feel the growth of the structure.


This lead to my thinking about a basic shape that could multiply and change in form. I began with half of a rhombus of Fertility, which could grow into a hexagram, and then into a hexagon. Imagine a sheet of these hexagons can roll up into a ball, as shown in the sculpture. For me it now resembles a living creature, a Diatom, and has become Life.


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