PRIMA MATERIA
Series: Configurations of Matter & Spirit
Material: Bronze
Year: 2013-2014
Dimensions: H 137cm W 90 cm D 60cm
The series of 3 sculptures are about creation. The fall of man and the resulting potential for good and evil born from freedom of choice.
According to legend, Kabbalah was given to Adam & Eve after they had eaten from the tree of knowledge to help put humanity on its path back to Eden.
Prima Materia is a figure of the imagination, being moulded out of the earth. The disc represents for the artist the marriage between science and spirituality. Each attribute of the 10 Sephirot, elements of creation are etched into the sphere.