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Artist Eike Waltz
Aptos, California USA
Spirit Rising
Sculpture
Artist Statement
My wife’s beloved sister Colleen past away suddenly. On the beach her shadow has risen into memories. “When you died half of my heart died; Now I don’t know what to do with the other half”.
As a great admirer of Jean Cocteau I met with him (so in a dream) when I was 20 years of age where he confronted me with the importance of “the line”. At the same time when I (then a ballet dancer at the Deutsche Oper Berlin) was told by a family member of Stefan Zweig (the writer) to pursue the meaning of “to say” (say it outside the box – say it as you see it, say it with passion). Returning to the square and circle in Ice is a series of bronze sculptures which demonstrate the result. Both the importance of “the line” and what “to say” expressing a short story using the most basics of shape: 3D childlike “stickman” translated into square and circular shapes. Detail such as hands, fingers, feet, facials, and color play little or no role as the overall shape “speaks”. Ice (the choice of the final bronze patina) has many shades of “no colors”, hence also called the “Ice Series”.
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