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Gneiss
 
Gneiss
2005
hemlock
35 x 33 x 14.5 inches
(89 x 84 x 37 cm)
$8,000
 
This finely poised piece, whose densely formed base carefully counterweights its slanting top, suggests the banding of "gneiss" (pronounced "nice") - high-grade, folded and refolded metamorphic rock. Gneiss is used as a building stone and Gneiss presents a structured edifice - a piece of subtly balance tension. Constructed from over 500 identical pieces, the most dramatic visual aspects of this sculpture are probably the Moire patterns that come into view whenever the sculpture is between the viewer and a light source, whether reflected or direct.

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