ART Habens Anne Cecile Surga
representations of her, and I am sure the same would hold true no matter if it were for up to 100 or even 1000 representations.
Thanks a lot for noticing the different levels of interpretation present in my work, and for understanding the way I lead the viewers’ approach to my pieces. As I did not follow a classic training in visual arts, I learnt to use materials through a lot of trials and errors. I keep on experimenting even today with new materials such as plexiglass, wax, or the use of pigments on marble, and that is how I discover new techniques or discard some others.
I first began to work with clay as it is a material easily available which did not required a lot of investment for a novice artist. But this material has some requirements that do not suit my approach: it is heavy so it needs a structure to support the material from within, it needs to be stored in a specific environment, there should be no air bubble emprisoned in the material otherwise the sculpture will explode when baked and it is not sturdy enough when raw, etc. These technical demands plus the physical limitations of the material made me looking for more. Now I
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