Sculptor | Beatriz Cunha | Escultura: My work shirt

Sunday, June 3, 2012

My work shirt | Camisa de trabalho

I've had it for so many years that it's falling apart.
As I am unable to part with it, I'm sewing it with circles of crochet and it's becoming increasingly beautiful.
Tenho-a à tantos anos que se está a desfazer.
Como sou incapaz de me separar dela vou-lhe pregando rodelas de crochet e está cada vez mais bonita.

2 comments:

patrickgracewood said...: Beatriz,
Your shirt is the perfect metaphor
for an artist's life...(que Strauss music)
Ordinary shirt + lots of work = specialt relationship
special relationship is seen, valued, cared for, nurturet, becomes more.
From ordinary Shirt becomes rag becomes robe, layers of time and meaning. Important even if you are the only one to see them.; June 4, 2012 at 7:29 PM
Beatriz Cunha said...: Thank you for your insightful comment.
I weare it in a meaningful way, it has become a protective second skin.; June 5, 2012 at 11:18 PM

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The creation of my pieces starts with the observation of the complex relations established between phenomena as diverse as nature’s fertility, man made objects, music or art history. It’s an intimate work in search of integrating conflicting forces, ultimately leading to the transmutation of the parts in to a transcending whole. The shape contains in it self the memory of the evolution from one condition to another in a process of transformation that is at the same time natural, personal and cultural.

A concepção das minhas peças parte da observação e da abstracção das relações que se estabelecem entre fenómenos tão diversos como a fertilidade da natureza, objectos de construção humana, a musica ou a história da Arte. É um trabalho íntimo que busca integrar forças em conflito e que conduz à transmutação das partes num todo que as transcende. A forma guarda a memória da evolução de uma condição para outra, num processo de transformação que é pessoal, natural e cultural.