Serenity / Serenità is a marble portrait of an imaginary woman with lots of flowing hair. Her eyes are closed... Read More
Serenity / Serenità
is a marble portrait of an imaginary woman with lots of
flowing hair. Her eyes are closed as she moves into her head,
meditating and peaceful. The hair flows around and then in front of her
face like billowing clouds or the crests of waves. Skies or seas, she
feels at one with herself and the world around her.
The marble is white with gold veining. Small pyrite crystals
(aka fools' gold) are embedded in both cheeks along the lines of the
veins. I got the stone from a stone dealer in Pietrasanta, Italy, a
town famous for stone sculptors and near the more famous Carrara stone
quarries.
Please see the video link below to understand that there is a
crack in this stone. I changed the design around it and it should not
pose a problem since I have carved places for the water to escape around
this area.