"Heart of Gold"
About the work
"HEART of GOLD” is a smaller and more contained work following in the footsteps of the series of large sculptures that were realized specifically for a personal exhibition entitled INTRINSIC FREQUECIES held within and on the battlements of the castle of Santa Severina in Calabria, in southern Italy.
The series is entitled “Germogli” which means “Seedlings, Buds, Shoots, or Germinations”, it captures the sense of the beginning of growth coupled with that of a change of entity, a bud becomes a flower, a nut sprouts and grows to become a tree.
Furthermore I wanted to link this action of growth, of realization, to human attitudes and characteristics, so this series is entitled according to the nature of the expansion of the geometric form and the choice of the colour that is revealed within. The colour is the entity of the seed, here it is a soft golden colour, within the hard, metallic brushed stainless steel shell of the nut.
The title of this specific work is “Heart of Gold”. The cut faces of the cube are opened out thus the cube form expands in space, as in breathing, or a heart beating.
The sculpture is mounted on a stainless steel rod held in the turned plaster base which houses a slow electric motor. So as the sculpture rotates it seems to breathe, and reveals within itself a continually changing moiree or interference pattern effect.
