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Horror, the unbearable pain of losing a loved one, or the tragedy of an entire people (such as genocide)...how does one express that? Not a face expressing tragedy or terror, but tragedy and terror without the face, in their pure form. To do this, I resort to a surrealist metaphor: a moaning mask wearing a screaming mask. Glancing from one to the other creates the impression of animate figures, as the frames of a movie would.
The most expressive part of the face - the eyes - are missing. Why? Imagine a person driven mad by suffering, screaming and moaning; he may have eyes wide open but not be able to see anything. Or, more likely, he will shut his eyes tightly. At that moment a person is unable to perceive anything from the outside, only perceiving that which is inside and would tear apart his chest and head, if it is not released through the screams and the moans. The mask is absolute zero - a line past which no life or emotion can exist. Looking at it, one can understand how small and insignificant our daily struggles and worries can be at times.
S C R E A M – S I G N


Horror, the unbearable pain of losing a loved one, or the tragedy of an entire people (such as genocide)...how does one express that? Not a face expressing tragedy or terror, but tragedy and terror without the face, in their pure form. To do this, I resort to a surrealist metaphor: a moaning mask wearing a screaming mask. Glancing from one to the other creates the impression of animate figures, as the frames of a movie would.
The most expressive part of the face - the eyes - are missing. Why? Imagine a person driven mad by suffering, screaming and moaning; he may have eyes wide open but not be able to see anything. Or, more likely, he will shut his eyes tightly. At that moment a person is unable to perceive anything from the outside, only perceiving that which is inside and would tear apart his chest and head, if it is not released through the screams and the moans. The mask is absolute zero - a line past which no life or emotion can exist. Looking at it, one can understand how small and insignificant our daily struggles and worries can be at times.
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Scream-sigh Sculpture

Leonid Filitsyan

United States

Sculpture, Bronze on Bronze

Size: 6 W x 6.5 H x 6 D in

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S C R E A M – S I G N Horror, the unbearable pain of losing a loved one, or the tragedy of an entire people (such as genocide)...how does one express that? Not a face expressing tragedy or terror, but tragedy and terror without the face, in their pure form. To do this, I resort to a surrealist metaphor: a moaning mask wearing a screaming mask. Glancing from one to the other creates the impression of animate figures, as the frames of a movie would. The most expressive part of the face - the eyes - are missing. Why? Imagine a person driven mad by suffering, screaming and moaning; he may have eyes wide open but not be able to see anything. Or, more likely, he will shut his eyes tightly. At that moment a person is unable to perceive anything from the outside, only perceiving that which is inside and would tear apart his chest and head, if it is not released through the screams and the moans. The mask is absolute zero - a line past which no life or emotion can exist. Looking at it, one can understand how small and insignificant our daily struggles and worries can be at times.

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Size:6 W x 6.5 H x 6 D in

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