© A Verlaeckt Clark 2016
In my studio
Rising Realities
Brucite-Dolomite and Forged Steel
17in x 8in x 7in
Rising realities.
Sometimes you have to listen more closely to hear what
you really 'should' know. This dark stone almost bubbled
once I understood the journey...within us all is a lightness
that can inspire...it should be a collective rising reality!
Rising Realities
The depth of imagination
Breaks rhythm,
Translating rising realities...
Unmasking an oracle
It
Forges the curve in life.
Primal Mysteries
Shunaya Marble/Hand-Forged Steel
9" x 7" x 24"
Finding this Shunaya Marble's fossil was pure serendipity. During
the sculpting process it seemed, simply a depression that was so
beautiful in shape, it was earmarked to keep. Studying the
marble, in silence and the changing light, I discovered a primal
mystery.
Primal Mysteries
An Outerworld caught in the web of antiquity...
Like silences folding back from the brink
In a shifting light;
Awakened by a gentle west wind from sleep,
A portal draws back
Yielding its primal mysteries.
Two, Zero, One, Four
Anhydrite and Dolomite
16in x 14in x 9in
Rhythms change in life as they do in music - you have to seek
your own rhythm to reach happiness, your personal success
and sense of well-being - the lines in this stone seem to criss-
cross the landscape of life, like pathways - forging a gentle
movement.
Two, Zero, One, Four
A landscape criss-crossed by illusion
Forges a world beyond yesterday;
Sometimes
Uncentered clay on a potter’s wheel
Finds its neutral
And
Its grey-coloured curve
Invents a new rhythm,
Two, Zero, One, Four...
At the Edge
Green Serpentine - Hand-Forged Steel,
21W x 12D X 9H
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At the Edge
As I turned this large piece of green, black Serpentine about,
sensing the direction and power of the stone, as a sailor I
could see, night waters...moving toward a nocturnal
shoreline...and sailing, at night, you feel anonymous.
At the edge of nocturnal sands,
Lies a water-world...
Floating on dreams and whispers,
A wave surges
Sheer and stark from the sea...
A watery moiré,
Ruled by Moons
From far beyond...
With time on its side,
Water tendrils trace the surface of memories
Embracing the rough shoreline...
More than death, she fears...nothingness.
Fade to Black
Black Marble/Stainless Steel
18 X 8 X 10
Fade to Black
The egg form symbolizes hidden conflicts
within us all; a hunger for security and the
challenge of confrontation and risk.
In this neverness,
The synthesis of all emotion
Disappears on murmur-winds
Into a honeycomb of blackness;
Colour fades
When hope sees its vanishing point
Lingering at the doorway of nightfall;
Fade to black...
Purity
Marble
14in x 11in x 9in
'Purity' has its own voice...its pure shape is contrasted by
the honeycomb in the interior which speaks of life in the
here and now, and, the exterior, so mysterious in its purity.
Purity
In the arms of a galaxy...
Purity's silhouette, is the space Between
The absolute and the mysterious.
Creasing the Surface of Infinity
Blue Anhydrite and Steel
41 x 25 x 33 cm
Creasing the Surface of Infinity
Beyond breath,
Just creasing the surface of infinity,
Fluid between worlds,
Truth carves its centre;
A ripple crossing silence...