Layer after Layer
2008–2009, marble, 25 photographs, each 13,5cm x 13,5cm, stone dust-heap: 80cm x 55cm x 45cm, photo Marie Madlen Weber
Layer after Layer
2008–2009, marble, 25 photographs, each 13,5cm x 13,5cm, stone dust-heap: 80cm x 55cm x 45cm, photo Marie Madlen Weber
Layer after Layer
2008–2009, marble, 25 photographs, each 13,5cm x 13,5cm, stone dust-heap: 80cm x 55cm x 45cm, photo Marie Madlen Weber
Starting point of the sculptural progress is an old block of marble which is coated with a grey patina. The sculptural impacts are merely made on one side of the block. Delicate traces emerge redrawing the cracks of the old stone. Those relief-like drawings remain visible inside the sparkling stone which is more and more revealed by the sculptural process. But after finishing this first relief the image is erased again and the fine lines disappear giving way to a brilliant white. On this smoothly carved surface the next image occurs: This time the forms go deeper though they orientate themselves to the texture of the stone again. This relief is, again, extinguished by the further sculptural treatment. Gradually the stone is getting thinner and thinner as more and more images emerge which are hewed off again.
In the end the marble block has been carved into dust. But the photographs document the memories of the stories found in the stone.
