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THE FLOWER IS ALWAYS IN THE ALMOND, 2015 Material: hand made felt(course and merino wool) and metal horse bite Size:max. stretched size is 63 cm x 12 cm x 5 cm Weight: 500 g This unusual , hand felted sculptural piece is virtually depicting this proverb that I always liked a lot!.( the most famous quotation is in "The Poetics of Space", by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, but it's actually much older). There is the »future« already in the seed( of the present) and vice-versa… The nature is about the cycles…..or ,one can interpret it also as: what we sow ,is what we get ! In Christianity symbolises promise and beauty and is a symbol of resurrection.... The outer shape is »almondy«, also known as" mandorla " (Latin: vesica piscis – in the Middle age painting ,mandorla is often depicted as aureola, inside which there is an image of Jesus Christ, mother Mary or other saints). Inside, there is red lined shape of the blossom. Both parts are connected with the horse bite, which is typical for all my felted sculptures from this collection. In this case, it does not symbolises subservience but rather the connecting element. The colours are in natural spectrum, but contrasting, from whitish on the outside to black on the inside with strong contrast of red and green and it has this »ethnic« feel….. The very »middle« ( in strong green, symbolising growth) is concave on one side and convex on the other, so when you put both halves together they fit perfectly and form an almond-like, fully shaped object. On the outer side there is my signature and the year of manufacture. The sculpture can rest flat on a horizontal surface as well it can be hanged on a wall etc…. The interesting thing about felt is , that it does not attracts dust!! So, it doesn't get dirty, even if it's in light colours! But if , after many years, eventually get dirty, maintainace is rather easy. It can be dusted with a soft brush or also gently washed in warm soapy water .Warm or even hot water will not harm it, because it's already felted! After washing and rinsing it you dry it with a towel and then continue drying it in the air . Be careful and gentle around the spots where metal and felt come together, because metal is heavier and may rip felt if you pull! Do not worry because of the shipping.Felt is very light and will cost you almost nothing.( I was forced to mark bigger weight , because Saatchi has this "form", and just automatically tells you the weight....) My signature is embedded on the outer side( on one half is SABA and on the other half is the year 2015)
THE FLOWER IS ALWAYS IN THE ALMOND, 2015 Material: hand made felt(course and merino wool) and metal horse bite Size:max. stretched size is 63 cm x 12 cm x 5 cm Weight: 500 g This unusual , hand felted sculptural piece is virtually depicting this proverb that I always liked a lot!.( the most famous quotation is in "The Poetics of Space", by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, but it's actually much older). There is the »future« already in the seed( of the present) and vice-versa… The nature is about the cycles…..or ,one can interpret it also as: what we sow ,is what we get ! In Christianity symbolises promise and beauty and is a symbol of resurrection.... The outer shape is »almondy«, also known as" mandorla " (Latin: vesica piscis – in the Middle age painting ,mandorla is often depicted as aureola, inside which there is an image of Jesus Christ, mother Mary or other saints). Inside, there is red lined shape of the blossom. Both parts are connected with the horse bite, which is typical for all my felted sculptures from this collection. In this case, it does not symbolises subservience but rather the connecting element. The colours are in natural spectrum, but contrasting, from whitish on the outside to black on the inside with strong contrast of red and green and it has this »ethnic« feel….. The very »middle« ( in strong green, symbolising growth) is concave on one side and convex on the other, so when you put both halves together they fit perfectly and form an almond-like, fully shaped object. On the outer side there is my signature and the year of manufacture. The sculpture can rest flat on a horizontal surface as well it can be hanged on a wall etc…. The interesting thing about felt is , that it does not attracts dust!! So, it doesn't get dirty, even if it's in light colours! But if , after many years, eventually get dirty, maintainace is rather easy. It can be dusted with a soft brush or also gently washed in warm soapy water .Warm or even hot water will not harm it, because it's already felted! After washing and rinsing it you dry it with a towel and then continue drying it in the air . Be careful and gentle around the spots where metal and felt come together, because metal is heavier and may rip felt if you pull! Do not worry because of the shipping.Felt is very light and will cost you almost nothing.( I was forced to mark bigger weight , because Saatchi has this "form", and just automatically tells you the weight....) My signature is embedded on the outer side( on one half is SABA and on the other half is the year 2015)
THE FLOWER IS ALWAYS IN THE ALMOND, 2015 Material: hand made felt(course and merino wool) and metal horse bite Size:max. stretched size is 63 cm x 12 cm x 5 cm Weight: 500 g This unusual , hand felted sculptural piece is virtually depicting this proverb that I always liked a lot!.( the most famous quotation is in "The Poetics of Space", by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, but it's actually much older). There is the »future« already in the seed( of the present) and vice-versa… The nature is about the cycles…..or ,one can interpret it also as: what we sow ,is what we get ! In Christianity symbolises promise and beauty and is a symbol of resurrection.... The outer shape is »almondy«, also known as" mandorla " (Latin: vesica piscis – in the Middle age painting ,mandorla is often depicted as aureola, inside which there is an image of Jesus Christ, mother Mary or other saints). Inside, there is red lined shape of the blossom. Both parts are connected with the horse bite, which is typical for all my felted sculptures from this collection. In this case, it does not symbolises subservience but rather the connecting element. The colours are in natural spectrum, but contrasting, from whitish on the outside to black on the inside with strong contrast of red and green and it has this »ethnic« feel….. The very »middle« ( in strong green, symbolising growth) is concave on one side and convex on the other, so when you put both halves together they fit perfectly and form an almond-like, fully shaped object. On the outer side there is my signature and the year of manufacture. The sculpture can rest flat on a horizontal surface as well it can be hanged on a wall etc…. The interesting thing about felt is , that it does not attracts dust!! So, it doesn't get dirty, even if it's in light colours! But if , after many years, eventually get dirty, maintainace is rather easy. It can be dusted with a soft brush or also gently washed in warm soapy water .Warm or even hot water will not harm it, because it's already felted! After washing and rinsing it you dry it with a towel and then continue drying it in the air . Be careful and gentle around the spots where metal and felt come together, because metal is heavier and may rip felt if you pull! Do not worry because of the shipping.Felt is very light and will cost you almost nothing.( I was forced to mark bigger weight , because Saatchi has this "form", and just automatically tells you the weight....) My signature is embedded on the outer side( on one half is SABA and on the other half is the year 2015)
THE FLOWER IS ALWAYS IN THE ALMOND, 2015 Material: hand made felt(course and merino wool) and metal horse bite Size:max. stretched size is 63 cm x 12 cm x 5 cm Weight: 500 g This unusual , hand felted sculptural piece is virtually depicting this proverb that I always liked a lot!.( the most famous quotation is in "The Poetics of Space", by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, but it's actually much older). There is the »future« already in the seed( of the present) and vice-versa… The nature is about the cycles…..or ,one can interpret it also as: what we sow ,is what we get ! In Christianity symbolises promise and beauty and is a symbol of resurrection.... The outer shape is »almondy«, also known as" mandorla " (Latin: vesica piscis – in the Middle age painting ,mandorla is often depicted as aureola, inside which there is an image of Jesus Christ, mother Mary or other saints). Inside, there is red lined shape of the blossom. Both parts are connected with the horse bite, which is typical for all my felted sculptures from this collection. In this case, it does not symbolises subservience but rather the connecting element. The colours are in natural spectrum, but contrasting, from whitish on the outside to black on the inside with strong contrast of red and green and it has this »ethnic« feel….. The very »middle« ( in strong green, symbolising growth) is concave on one side and convex on the other, so when you put both halves together they fit perfectly and form an almond-like, fully shaped object. On the outer side there is my signature and the year of manufacture. The sculpture can rest flat on a horizontal surface as well it can be hanged on a wall etc…. The interesting thing about felt is , that it does not attracts dust!! So, it doesn't get dirty, even if it's in light colours! But if , after many years, eventually get dirty, maintainace is rather easy. It can be dusted with a soft brush or also gently washed in warm soapy water .Warm or even hot water will not harm it, because it's already felted! After washing and rinsing it you dry it with a towel and then continue drying it in the air . Be careful and gentle around the spots where metal and felt come together, because metal is heavier and may rip felt if you pull! Do not worry because of the shipping.Felt is very light and will cost you almost nothing.( I was forced to mark bigger weight , because Saatchi has this "form", and just automatically tells you the weight....) My signature is embedded on the outer side( on one half is SABA and on the other half is the year 2015)
THE FLOWER IS ALWAYS IN THE ALMOND, 2015 Material: hand made felt(course and merino wool) and metal horse bite Size:max. stretched size is 63 cm x 12 cm x 5 cm Weight: 500 g This unusual , hand felted sculptural piece is virtually depicting this proverb that I always liked a lot!.( the most famous quotation is in "The Poetics of Space", by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, but it's actually much older). There is the »future« already in the seed( of the present) and vice-versa… The nature is about the cycles…..or ,one can interpret it also as: what we sow ,is what we get ! In Christianity symbolises promise and beauty and is a symbol of resurrection.... The outer shape is »almondy«, also known as" mandorla " (Latin: vesica piscis – in the Middle age painting ,mandorla is often depicted as aureola, inside which there is an image of Jesus Christ, mother Mary or other saints). Inside, there is red lined shape of the blossom. Both parts are connected with the horse bite, which is typical for all my felted sculptures from this collection. In this case, it does not symbolises subservience but rather the connecting element. The colours are in natural spectrum, but contrasting, from whitish on the outside to black on the inside with strong contrast of red and green and it has this »ethnic« feel….. The very »middle« ( in strong green, symbolising growth) is concave on one side and convex on the other, so when you put both halves together they fit perfectly and form an almond-like, fully shaped object. On the outer side there is my signature and the year of manufacture. The sculpture can rest flat on a horizontal surface as well it can be hanged on a wall etc…. The interesting thing about felt is , that it does not attracts dust!! So, it doesn't get dirty, even if it's in light colours! But if , after many years, eventually get dirty, maintainace is rather easy. It can be dusted with a soft brush or also gently washed in warm soapy water .Warm or even hot water will not harm it, because it's already felted! After washing and rinsing it you dry it with a towel and then continue drying it in the air . Be careful and gentle around the spots where metal and felt come together, because metal is heavier and may rip felt if you pull! Do not worry because of the shipping.Felt is very light and will cost you almost nothing.( I was forced to mark bigger weight , because Saatchi has this "form", and just automatically tells you the weight....) My signature is embedded on the outer side( on one half is SABA and on the other half is the year 2015)
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THE FLOWER IS ALWAYS IN THE ALMOND, 2015 Material: hand made felt(course and merino wool) and metal horse bite Size:max. stretched size is 63 cm x 12 cm x 5 cm Weight: 500 g This unusual , hand felted sculptural piece is virtually depicting this proverb that I always liked a lot!.( the most famous quotation is in "The Poetics of Space", by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, but it's actually much older). There is the »future« already in the seed( of the present) and vice-versa… The nature is about the cycles…..or ,one can interpret it also as: what we sow ,is what we get ! In Christianity symbolises promise and beauty and is a symbol of resurrection.... The outer shape is »almondy«, also known as" mandorla " (Latin: vesica piscis – in the Middle age painting ,mandorla is often depicted as aureola, inside which there is an image of Jesus Christ, mother Mary or other saints). Inside, there is red lined shape of the blossom. Both parts are connected with the horse bite, which is typical for all my felted sculptures from this collection. In this case, it does not symbolises subservience but rather the connecting element. The colours are in natural spectrum, but contrasting, from whitish on the outside to black on the inside with strong contrast of red and green and it has this »ethnic« feel….. The very »middle« ( in strong green, symbolising growth) is concave on one side and convex on the other, so when you put both halves together they fit perfectly and form an almond-like, fully shaped object. On the outer side there is my signature and the year of manufacture. The sculpture can rest flat on a horizontal surface as well it can be hanged on a wall etc…. The interesting thing about felt is , that it does not attracts dust!! So, it doesn't get dirty, even if it's in light colours! But if , after many years, eventually get dirty, maintainace is rather easy. It can be dusted with a soft brush or also gently washed in warm soapy water .Warm or even hot water will not harm it, because it's already felted! After washing and rinsing it you dry it with a towel and then continue drying it in the air . Be careful and gentle around the spots where metal and felt come together, because metal is heavier and may rip felt if you pull! Do not worry because of the shipping.Felt is very light and will cost you almost nothing.( I was forced to mark bigger weight , because Saatchi has this "form", and just automatically tells you the weight....) My signature is embedded on the outer side( on one half is SABA and on the other half is the year 2015)

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I'm interested in many things and I'm on the constant search of new ways to share my thoughts in the visual language, but also stories, universal human issues, issues concerning women and many more…. Therefore I'm also changing materials and forms in order to express this things! I think I don't have a particular style, because everything is subordinated. to the subject I'm interested in. I tend to shell the majority of »feeling« from the material itself. I use a huge range of materials:from classic sculpting materials (predominately clay, stone, glass bronze) to more contemporary ones, like plastic, fibre, felt, found objects, liquid….. to non-material mediums ( video., sound or animation). If I feel vulnerable I might choose felt to work with ( for "protection"), next time,if I feel like »falling to pieces«, I might decide to make sculptures made of multiple pieces that need to be assembled, or when I'm happy and content, I choose clay or metal, to show how strong I'm feeling…. So, there's clearly lndirect physical evidence of my mood/state on material itself!! I'd divide my work on two main complexes: The intimate (smallish) one and the public / large one. In the past I was interested in figure but also the fragments of the human body like hands, legs, bellybuttons, ears….although I don't work very much on figure nowadays I still return back to it now and then, because it's somehow the eternal source…. as it's for material:clay! I'm particularly interested in space, so I often work on site-specific installations. I love to work in remote places somewhere in the nature. For me it's more important the place , where I work, then how many people will actually see this work at the end…. That counts predominately for the public concept. When I work In small scale , the surrounding space is less important – although,it's never totally excluded- there I put a lot of emphasis on detail. I deal a lot with symbols and surrealistic visual language sometimes my art is very minimal, but sometimes rich in form and colour…There was time when I was quite influenced by Magritte, but also Cubism( after my travel to Africa in eighties) and Brancusi. In time of study also new English sculpture had huge influence on me , like Deacon, Kapoor, Woodrow, Caro , Cragg and many others from that generation! My art usually refers to ( personal) past events or premonition of the future or has critical, even sarcastic note to the modern society.

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