"Fire Inside"

"FIRE INSIDE” 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 within the hard, in this case metallic, shell of the nut.

The title of this specific work is “Fire Inside”. The cut faces of the cube are rotated around a diagonal axis thus the cube form turns both in and out on itself. The inner colour, a vibrant red, the colour of passion or danger, is bursting out. “Fire Inside” is a reference to the Bob Seger song.

The sculpture is mounted on a stainless steel rod held vertical in the clear acrylic base by two micro bearings permitting the work also to be observed in rotation by swivelling the rod.