Benedictine sculpturing: Sustainability

Posted by Illuci (Hurdegaryp, Netherlands) on 13 March 2008 in Art & Design and Portfolio.

The work you saw on the previous pages. It symbolizes mankind in his work directly drawing on the earth's resources and at the same time sustaining the world. Let's get aware that we in our work draw on limited resources, and that most of our work in fact is not "producing" but "consuming" seen from the POV of the earth. If we want to survive we have to sustain.

The brother-artist told me that especially the globe took much effort to shape from the stone, which is easily imaginable: a perfectly round ball hewn from raw and very hard stone without the help of a computer-steered hewing robot!
The globe is not totally spheric yet because the work isn't yet completed: the hands of the figures have to be shaped, and the surplus of stone at the bottom of the globe will be removed during this process. At the left there's also much work to do.

The working on sustainability is also not completed, and is just like the sculpture, in statu nascendi, that is, in state of being born.

Photo with courtesy to the abbey of Benedictusberg, Vaals.

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