Debora Alanna: Stone sculpture 2014 - 2016

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Debora Alanna Stone Carving 2014 - 2016

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Debora AlannaStone Carving2014 - 2016

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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

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Work in this presentation concentrates on my stone sculpture made between 2014 – 2016.

During this time I also drew, painted and made installations.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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– work in progress – front view

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Anima by Debora Alanna – details

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Anima – front view Anima – side view

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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].

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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

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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

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Ramification(s) - in progress

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- front view - detail

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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

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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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