Cosmic Death Urn Sculpture

This piece of sculpture is very special to me. It is the one of three sculptures I created of this type. It is a land mark procedure for me as I discovered this new way to create sculpture. Essentially a lot of pieces of sand blocks are carved, glued together and then molten metal is poured into the cavity. You do not know what your sculpture will look like until after casting when you take it apart.You only have a conceptual idea. It is really exciting when you clean off the sand blocks to reveal your design. You must realize I am the founder and do my own work unlike other sculptors who take their work to a art foundry to have it duplicated in metal. I am able to modify the molding process to discover new ways to build. Most of my work is impossible to make an edition of because it is too complex to make a mold from. Many of my ideas do not work out so that the ones that do are more valuable. In this case the blocks have created a story in a cryptic language, from another planet that Flash Gordon and I traveled to in my dream time adventures. The people on this planet have died off for some reason. Sort of like the Mayans or the ancient Egyptians leaving behind temples and monuments to mark their cultural beliefs and history. Flash and I believe they made these vessels to record special events. The vessel has a script all around it telling the details. There were birth urns and death urns and we believe this one was a divorce urn. We think they put a drink of some sort in it and shared it with others at the event and used it as other cultures on Earth made stealies or grave markers. This is a desk top sculpture and will come with a thick marble base that is polished on top and rough cut on the sides. More Sculpture If you like this piece you might like to see more. I have hundreds more in different styles and themes on this site. Enter "Arfsten sculpture" in the search box in the upper right to see them. There are many more pieces of sculpture that I have not had time to put here on Saatchi yet. If you google “Richard Arfsten sculptor” and hit “Images” on the opening page you will see a collection that I plan to put on Sattchi as time permits. There is also many movies of many of these pieces on “You Tube Richard Arfsten sculpture” with the sculpture in a multitude of settings and verbal discussions.

Sculpture:Metal on Aluminium

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:8 W x 11 H x 8 D in

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