Geradamus

This sculpture is carved from Australian limestone from Portland, South Australia. It has a found and naturally shaped piece of volcanic stone fixed to the sculpture’s top section.

Similar to a bronze sculpture of mine, ‘Manchild with Cloud Motif’, it draws on the Mediaeval concept of human form as an embodiment/mirror of the physical world. I first came across this idea reading  ‘Justine’ by Lawrence Durrell, an extraordinary author who, curiously, had a long term friendship with Henry Miller. Anyway, this mediaeval concept describes bones as rock strata, hair as grass and thoughts as clouds. The implication of this sculpture’s thought cloud as being formed in some prehistoric, subterranean volcanic event, appeals to me greatly.