Original artwork description:

Dichotomy is an unusual and poetic ethnic sculpture of a saltimbanque or moon player man, made from a piece of wild light wood found in the forest, eaten away by nature and the weather, abandoned to his sad fate of dead wild wood...

The strange expression of his face symbolizes the dichotomy between the dreaming side of a character inclined to internalize and the side of his profession which obliges him on the contrary to externalize to surprise and impress the gallery. The dichotomy is also present in the feminine and masculine side of the character.

This statue belongs to the Ostreides series, which expresses the complexity of life in its search for the most appropriate form for survival, as well as the wisdom of the mind applied to the transformation of matter.

Its body was worked with a gouge in wood cleaned and emptied of its impurities and weaknesses, to give it its final shape and completed, as was its head, with cellulose of surfine wood modeled to recover parts that were crumbling and give the top of the work an aspect of imperfect and gnawed collar, then stained with water-soluble oil paint and varnished.

Dimensions with base : H 58 x W 12 x D 12 cm
Signed piece under the wood.

Materials : dead wood found in the forest, wood cellulose, water-soluble oil paint, marine varnish, black iron base.

Materials used:

wood surfine cellulose, acrylic paint, varnish,, nepenthes dried urns,

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