COLLECTION SERIES MARBLE SCULPTURE

Carved by MARTIN COONEY 

On The Cusp / 1314 Winter Collection / Colorado Yule Marble

26.5 x 12.5 x 8.5” / 39.4 lbs / SN131102 / $2,850

This Carving is Currently Displayed at THE KMJ Stoneworks

Located across from the airport and fronting Highway 82

111 Aspen Airport Business Center, Suite D, Aspen, Colorado 81611

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Well over a year had elapsed since I put the finishing touches to Work in Progress, the final Maiden Collection Hand Carved Marble Bowl, and I was chomping at the bit to fashion another bowl. I derive an immense amount of pleasure and satisfaction from the process of releasing a large Curvilinear bowl from the iron grip of an uncompromising block of marble.

Even I find it strange to think that these unlikely looking blocks already contain the entire finished sculpture within.  Exactly how I set about freeing them is an intricate and involved process, and one that demands not a little effort on my part, but all the hard work and endurance proves eminently worthwhile once a brand-new bowl slowly begins to emerge before my eyes.  On the Cusp derives her name from the moment a rather dramatic intervention from within the marble itself in the form of a blemish of some sort, served to instantly transform a rather uniform and deep bowl, into the one you see before you – resplendent with her deep and defining cutaway making for a quite superb banquet display bowl.

Strange thing is, I now find it quite impossible to imagine this large, robust, indoor/outdoor Hand Carved Marble Bowl without its signature swoosh of a cut.  At the time (since these things tend to happen during the final stages of the carving process) I was left quite stunned, but such is the nature of my Direct Method Collection Series Curvilinear Marble Sculpture.

Before too long I was cleaning up the mess and adopting this new found form as my own, but credit will always go to Mabel, Spirit of the Stone, who is what The Collection Series Marble Sculpture is all about: not so much a constant struggle with the stone to submit to my ideas, as to enter into an alliance with the marble (Mabel) and forge something absolutely brand new from a 30 million year-old block.

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COLLECTION SERIES MARBLE SCULPTURE

Carved by MARTIN COONEY 

On The Cusp / 1314 Winter Collection / Colorado Yule Marble

26.5 x 12.5 x 8.5” / 39.4 lbs / SN131102 / $2,850

This Carving is Currently Displayed at THE KMJ Stoneworks

Located across from the airport and fronting Highway 82

111 Aspen Airport Business Center, Suite D, Aspen, Colorado 81611

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