Original artwork description:

This marble sculpture, purposely unfinished. I like to keep the sculpture unfinished. To keep the record of the track of “Nature and Man”. Raw stone carved by Nature and figure carved by Man -myself. The figure appears just to move in the stone. The figure normally is hidden in stone and artist needs to find and reveal the figure or object. It is a sculptor’s job. Sculptor reveals hidden sculpture in stone. Sometimes I think that sculpture is like a vibration or wave that sculptor create by chisels which allows the material to create a shape. It is like a drop of water. I was inspired by Michelangelo four powerful statues – named by scholars as “The Awakening Slave”, “The Young Slave”, “The Bearded Slave” and “The Atlas (or Bound)” – is due above all to their unfinished state. They are some of the finest examples of Michelangelo’s habitual working practice, referred to as “non-finito” (or incomplete), magnificent illustrations of the difficulty of the artist in carving out the figure from the block of marble and emblematic of the struggle of man to free the spirit from matter. These sculptures have been interpreted in many ways. As we see them, in various stages of completion, they evoke the enormous strength of the creative concept as they try to free themselves from the bonds and physical weight of the marble. It is now claimed that the artist deliberately left them incomplete to represent this eternal struggle of human beings to free themselves from their material trappings.
The figure is all hand-carved with a combination of hand pitched and raw parts of the stone.

Materials used:

stone Carrara Marble