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Elegant
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Other arresting carved pieces convey the same spirit: Elegant & Father and Child
being good examples. The former is a beautiful and finely finished female form carved also from a Madeira log,
the latter is a similar but depicts a male figure with a child melded onto his back. The fine finish in the
fathers face recedes into a rough representation of the child, who awaits the formative impact of life yet to
be lived.
Other pieces worthy of mention include The Serpent's Tongue, which tales a different more abstract line; And Awakening, a forceful madeira carving depicting a female form emerging from the form of wood, with the natural knots forming scars if the force of creation on its brow. These pieces all demonstrate Roberts growing mastery of the medium, while attesting to the control that the medium still maintains over the process. It is over his minor carved pieces that Kapo's shadow looms largest, a spindly female form, an agile dancing youth and the other pieces that, while not in the same spiritual vein as the late intuitive master, are indicative of a similar approach to the work, displaying complete surrender by the artist to the will of the wood. Basil Smith |
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Father and Child
Madeira 34 " |
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