Sculpture

Name Burma Girl
Material Black Marble with Light Grey Streaks
Block Pre-Historic River Pebble
Origin Yatagan, Turkey
Entity Inception Date 2007 August

01 Burma Girl

It all started from here. In need of something to act as a head-rest for the headphones I keep at home I decided to slice the bottom off a large pebble that is part of a collection in our village garden. It was something of a surprise to find that the pebble was in fact made of marble.

My marble headphone stand did the job perfectly, so I decided to make another for my office desk. Selecting a suitable pebble from my collection I again sliced of the bottom to find that is was black marble. Having seen many imaginary faces on my original pebble headphone stand (depending on the angle of the light) I thought a little modification to the black marble pebble would make it look a little more like a head.

What appeared was the piece I call Burma Girl, I had no preconceived idea about what I wanted it to look like, she just appeared.

So where did these marble pebbles come from? Well that's another story which deserves another page.

Postscript
It's two years since the inception of Burma Girl and during that time my technique has developed to the point that I know she could be improved upon, but I don't have the heart to disfigure her. After all it was Burma Girl who sent me along this path.

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