COLLECTION SERIES MARBLE SCULPTURE
Carved by MARTIN COONEY
Inner Strength / 1314 Winter Collection / Colorado Yule Marble
7 x 10 x 47″ / SN140101 / $3,200
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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Rather than being carved I would say that Inner Strength was jettisoned into the world as a result the ‘drill and split’ method I used in order to create him. Because the task I set my self, in drilling so very many holes then using iron wedges called Plug and Feathers to form the shape that I had in mind in order to complete practically the entire carving process, was a first for me. And so having never used this method in which to create an entire sculpture – before or since, I might add, at any time during my drilling and pounding, I feared I may break him into pieces.
You see, I had been waiting for a sufficiently hard and brittle block of Yule to come along so that I could carry out an idea that had been rolling around my head for some time: to create an entire carving by drilling and splitting alone. And what did I envisage my new brutalist sculpture to be? Why, a statement regarding strength and resolve. What better than a rigid backbone?
And so, with all heavy drilling and constant hammering of the mallet, at some point during the carving process I realized that I was probably gazing down upon the toughest piece of marble – perhaps even the toughest piece of stone – that I had personally ever encountered. The backbone shape provided all the excuse I needed in order to focus all of my sculpting attention to making this the most formidable sculpture of its kind (a “standing stone”, I call them) that I am ever likely to carve.
Inner Strength, of all my outdoor Marble Standing Stones to date, is perhaps best equipped of all to endure all that a Colorado Rocky Mountain winter storm may hurl at it. But not just endure – what I mean is that Inner Strength positively embraces the bone-chilling cold and savage wind. Here’s a sculpture carved not only to inspire strength, but inner strength at that !
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COLLECTION SERIES MARBLE SCULPTURE
Carved by MARTIN COONEY
Inner Strength / 1314 Winter Collection / Colorado Yule Marble
7 x 10 x 47″ / SN140101 / $3,200
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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Please note: Inner Strength is secured to swivel upon a hole drilled into the underside of its base.
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