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The im-mortal pestle Sculpture

Soeren Ernst

Germany

Sculpture, Stone on Marble

Size: 7.9 W x 11.8 H x 11.8 D in

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The marble sculpture 'Immortal Pestle' is a play on words, signifying the dual principles in the universe, the yoni and the lingam, and in more mundane language, mortar and pestle. It is a representation of the life giving force as phallus and the receptacle fashioned as a human skull. Thus embodying the shape of its decay and eventual demise at the initial act of its own creation. Everything that lives is born to die, the individual singing her or his short song and then entering the spheres of celestial harmony once more. Yet life itself goes on. The sculpture was part of an exhibition in France, entitled 'On life and death' together with other marble exhibits of the same year. The style is naturalistic because human skulls have always fascinated artists as the seat of consciousness and by the way morphology had shaped them to be the embodiment of human individuality. The sculpture consists of three different parts. The lower skull with the cranium top fashioned from the same block of stone; and the 'pestle' shaped from a grey marble. Both marbles are of Portuguese origin and hand polished.

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Sculpture:Stone on Marble

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:7.9 W x 11.8 H x 11.8 D in

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Soeren Ernst, born in Hamburg, Germany in 1967. I felt a strong calling to work in the three dimensional from the age of 17. At 19 I worked in the studio of German sculptor Joerg Plickat for a duration of two years. Travelling through Europe as a 'journeyman' I became a young independent sculptor and had first exhibitions in Scotland, where I also won 1st price in 'The arts of Scotland' competition, Pennicuik. On first visiting Portugal in 1989 I fell in love with the country and its people and the great variety of stones available for the sculptor. Since the 1990s I spend the summer in Germany and the winter months in Portugal.

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