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Faces are still similar to stone
Though damaged the busts are looking more life-like
Clearly 2000 years ago people had complex personalities
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Composition 476, Lockdown: "Stone to Life" - Limited Edition of 11 Artwork

Christopher Cristóbal Newberry Retana

United Kingdom

Mixed Media, Color on Aluminium

Size: 40 W x 40 H x 1 D in

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This image took 4 months to complete. Composition 476, Lockdown: "Stone to Life". The stone you see in every other square is 150 million-year-old Portland stone, Alternating with the stone are faces. Every face was shaped from stone about 2000 years ago. The eyes are all of contemporary people (including my own in one face). In the first row the faces are damaged and still look a lot like stone. As you go down the rows, the faces become more and more real, more and more colourful. What I find interesting is that we all come from the same stuff that stone is made of and we all go back to it (ashes to ashes, dust to dust). Life is fleeting. People today are essentially the same as we were 2,000 years ago. Still creative, still with dreams and fears . . . still behaving incredibly altruistically, heroically . . . and, of course, stupidly. If you can look at it on a large scale, you'll see that each face is a very different character with their own personality. The image is 40x40 inches in a limited edition of 11, however a special limited edition of 5 prints, measuring 80x80 inches could be negotiated.

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Mixed Media:Color on Aluminium

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:11

Size:40 W x 40 H x 1 D in

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He has an obsessive interest in disentangling truth from "alternative truth" in the ‘post-truth’world. Christopher Cristóbal was born in Mexico City on 15.11.51 – a palindrome. He travelled to Europe on a one-way air ticket, hitchhiking for several months and winding up in London He has directed documentaries and educational television programmes and worked as a professional photographer. He is author of two books on architecture and sociall history: "Look Up! Winchester" and "Look Up! Salisbury". He has come to regard himself as an image creator, using the camera to record reality and transforming it into Platonic views. His images are impossible – however much some may resemble reality (see his essay, "True Colours" at his website: www.christophernewberry.com).

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