Sculptor
Based on the writing, “A Sculptor from Tyana”, this piece is a bit different in feel than much of my other work. As the poem mainly talks about the sculptor touring his studio and showing each of the stone pieces that he has been working on, I simply wanted to show a fragment of the calmness and feeling of home that I feel from this piece. I feel that I can identify with the artist, taking pride in my work space and work. The feeling I get from this piece is warm, and crowded with work. I imagine a stone sculpting studio is dusty from each pick of a metal tool, but I can’t help but to imagine the dreamy, magic glow the room would possess if sunlight kissed its air throughout the day. The writing will be written below for more context.
DIMENSIONS: 9” x 12”
MEDIUM: Digital
“A Sculptor from Tyana”
As you may have heard, I’m not a beginner.
Quite a lot of stone has taken shape in my hands.
In my homeland, Tyana, I am well known,
and here senators have commissioned many statues from me.
Let me show you a few right now. Observe this Rhea,
inspiring reverence, full of fortitude, wholly archaic.
Observe Pompey. Marius,
Paulus Aemilius, Scipio Africanus.
Likenesses faithful as I could make them.
Patroklos (I’ll retouch him a bit).
Near the yellowish marble —
those pieces over there — is Kaisarion.
For some time now I’ve been working on a Poseidon.
I’m particularly studying his horses, how to form them.
They must be made so light
to show clearly that their bodies, their feet
don’t tread on earth, only gallop on water.
But look, here is my work I love most,
made with feeling and greatest care.
With him, on a warm summer day,
when my mind was rising to the ideal,
he came to me in a dream, this young Hermes.