ROK BOGATAJ

Dive into immortality, 2023

Private collection, Rifugio Piccolo, Grožnjan, Croatia 
stone Lipica unito

Every centimeter of every day became a kilometer of thoughts from the past to arrive mindlessly in the present. In the end, only facial expressions react. The stone is hard, but with its earth energy it transmits waves and cubic energy that it retains, even after it is extracted from the quarry. The mind and body have been strengthened and reborn.

I processed the stone using the same method that I did when I made sculptures out of wood. I simply scanned for the cut, making no corrections or finishes. This gave me a rhythm composed of various geometric shapes, which I assembled to make the body. Every time I turned on my angle grinder with a 230mm disc in order to attain a balance of shape, I sought out the cleanest cut I could locate.

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