The Two Faces of Life: Svena
This clay sculpture depicts a figure that has no eyes, no ears and only a mouth with a strange head represents Life. The figure has only it's most essential details, with no arms and legs, but only a round body. This can be either a human or an animal. On one side, there is the word, die carved deeply into it's body while the front shows a heart with several veins protruding to show that the heart is pumping. The mouth is completely hollowed out and it acts as a path, leading the front to the back and the back to the front.
The back of the figure is painted completely black, with the words in red. The front of the figure is competely red, except for a black heart with black veins. Thus, using only these two simple colours which represents life and death (red and black) or blood and darkness, it expresses the relationships of life and death. How life links to death and death also links to life. And it is very difficult in trying to completely show the cut-off line in dealing with life and death. In a way, it shows the two faces of life and it also shows the human's desire to understand the two.
It can be seen in this clay sculpture, that I have somewhat experimented, again, with a different composition, which is usually associated when comparing light and darkness. The colors are applied flatly with not much blending to give it a clear and bold look.
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