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A vertical stele of about eighty centimetres, carved from reddish-brown found wood, set on a section of trunk that keeps its bark. A long tapered blade rises from the mass toward a fine point; lower down, a circular knot with a hollowed core forms a kind of eye. The carving stays minimal: a few withdrawals, a light polishing, a cavity opened around the eye. Verticality does most of the work. An upright silhouette, held by its balance alone, set there the way one marks a threshold.
Reading notes
Henry Moore accepted the form found in the material and revealed it through polishing. The path here is rawer: keep the driftwood's irregularity, add the minimal touch that tips the fragment of nature into a work of art.