Debora Alanna: Stone sculpture 2014 - 2016
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Debora AlannaStone Carving2014 - 2016
Stone carving has been part of my art practice since my art school days. I studied stone carving with Leonard Osterle at the Ontario College of Art. The use of stone as a medium has been intermittent over the years. I have consistently returned to its use because carving is a practice that gives me much joy. I consider it a meditative endeavour.
Debora Alanna 1976
Work in this presentation concentrates on my stone sculpture made between 2014 – 2016.
During this time I also drew, painted and made installations.
Moving to Victoria in 2014 into the Cook Street Village neighbourhood meant working in an pleasant urban and well treed setting – a gentle segue from the
previous depths of nature that I inhabited for the past four years.
This urbanity did not affect the subject of my stone work. I continued to produce archetypal , mythic, symbolic sculpture.
Its charisma and abundance of airy verdure combined with congenial people in my midst allowed an agreeable work environment.
Anima by Debora Alanna
Hand carved alabaster 10 x 12 x 9”
- Front view
Anima expounds on human intricacy, animalistic behaviour, how personalities are ancient composites that may resemble animal traits.
Animal characteristics are emergent.
Anima by Debora Alanna
‘Anima’ has many references. Greeks thought it was a person’s psyche. Aristotle called the soul, anima.Carl Jung referred to the anima as the unconscious or genuine internal nature of an person.
Anima encompasses all of these suggestions.
- top view
Anima by Debora Alanna
I had been thinking about the concept of ‘anima’ for several years. Anima, the pastel drawing (8 x 11”) was made in 2011.
– work in progress – front view
Anima by Debora Alanna – details
Anima – front view Anima – side view
Ramification(s) by Debora Alanna
Hand carved alabaster 12 x 14 x 10”
Ramification(s) acknowledges the complicating extensions or outgrowths that delineate, define a situation, a person’s thought process. This sculpture is that process characterised in a ram’s head.
The process of extending or subdividing comes from Medieval Latin:rāmificāre < Latin rām(us) branch].
Ramification(s)
Each side of Ramification(s) has a different treatment. The right side eye is a spiral, a labyrinth of insight.
The surrounding horn arches and curls to respond to the acumen of the inward whorl.
– right side
Ramification(s)
The left side of the sculpture presents a bloom unfolding. Efflorescence is the thought process. Its horn curls around the outward gaze as a protector during this extroversion.
– left side
Ramification(s) - in progress
- front view - detail
Debora Alanna is a visual artist currently located in Montreal Quebec.
All art work, photographs, writing and design are produced by Debora Alanna.
© Debora Alanna 2016
Thank you!Thank you for taking the time to view this
presentation of my stone sculpture produced 2014 – 2016.
Debora Alanna
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