A stone seems dead, cold, hard, it seems impenetrable. However, stone carries us unconditionally and is a silent witness to our history. While working with this material you can reveal so many structures. A shape unfolds through it’s (unseen) lines that takes on meaning during chiseling and polishing. The types of stone, hard versus soft, color, transparency, as if it eliminates contradictions. The stone still continues to amaze me, it just makes me very happy and is still challenging me. ‘We don’t make mistakes, we just have happy accidents’ (Bob Ross) can be translated as the gifts of the stone. Actually, I sculpt in such a way that I am always open to these gifts, offered by the stone while sculpting.

I get inspiration from the works of Barbara Hepworth, Helaine Blumenfeld, Camille Claudel, Anish Kapoor, Henry Moore, Rodin, among others. In addition to what life allows to unfold by listening and seeing what lies beneath what is said or shown with delicate acuity for the details, leaving nothing out, all inclusive.

Hal H – 1.05 / 0.01

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