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SERPENT FORM

SCULPTURE – Direct carving. Carrara Marble, 2005.

This sculpture was made following a discussion with Disabled artist Mike O’Hara who talked about making art whilst gradually losing his vision; he talked about his quest of searching for the light, to have enough to give him the vision to make work.

The sculpture attempts to define the gradual loss as in the movement of a serpent, steady, imperceptible, wrapping around and piercing the eye. The underside of the top of the form is carved thinly, rather than pierced, to allow the penetration of a milky light, a glowing of light coming through the sculpture that shows the veins in the marble as the veins in the eye but does not illuminate.