This page is composed of formal exercises taken from the human figure. In some cases, I use the result of an sculpting exercise to further a concept or an idea beyond the formality. Sculpting anatomically correct figures and faces is very difficult, but in particular the eyes, they are extremely challenging! Our eyes hold the essence of the self and it is NOT a cliche to say that they are the window to our souls.
The process of sculpting is slow, highly rational but intimate at the same time, it requires attention to details in contour, light and shadow, texture, tension/relaxation and posture of the form. Our bodies are the standard in which we measure the universe. We, humans construct civilizations around our corporality and I believe that if we all study the human body and our anatomy we would be also studying our souls. They are one and the same!
On Clothes
Kahlil Gibran
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy you may find in them a harness and a chain.
Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less of your raiment,
For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.
