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Lorenzo De Francesco
The Art of Sculpting: Using Form to Express the Formless

The needle

3/4/2017

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The sculpture was  completed on the beginning of March 2017. it is 12 feet high. Made of Black Basalt and Sandstone.
I was inspired by the TRUTH contained in the story that Jesus talks in the New testament In Mark 10  Jesus narrates that it is  easier for a camel to go through the eye of the NEEDLE that for a rich man to go to heaven. We all understand the implication of the statement. Wealth in itself is not the impediment but the identification "IAM". reach, famous, successful, knowledgeable is the impediment 
It has been said that heaven is within you ,God is within you..so really is not a place to go to.
THE DILEMMA IS EXPERIENCE VS KNWOLEDGE. You cannot think your way to heaven.
A mistaken identification is to believe to be the thinker and or the doer, which  will prevent the passage 
 through the eye of the NEEDLE.
Sat-chit-ananda,beingconsciousness-bliss). Our true divine nature underneath what the mind creates and covers over. LDF

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"I AM NOT"

1/2/2016

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Every one calls oneself "I". Yet, that is just a momentary  form that LIFE, changeless eternity,  manifests itself.  The title.."I"...AM NOT". is a pointer towards the true nature that we are, to the right Identification: the "I" "I".
With its size, material, shaped forms, the sculpture states that the belief to be someone or something, is not REAL.  In it there is an underlying dishonesty, association to meanings, labels and illusive identities. Life is pure sentience eternal existence.  In mistaking one's own identity we create separateness..."me" "mine" in a world that is already an illusion. This 9' feet of pink granite sculpture places itself in the art trends remaining distant and aloof ,moving away from social environment or beliefs that conditioned an art movement. Away from the commentary of and to the world, which seems to be the preoccupation of many artists of the past and of the present. The sculpture eludes all connotation, links and attachments to the world, remaining uncontaminated and pure. Just like our true nature. Art can not be an intellectual statement competing with other intellectual statements of previous or contemporary art movements. At the beginning, at the origins, art was a pure gesture. There were not buyers, no museums, no galleries critics, intellectuals... it was pure in its own intentions.. now it has become a financial prostitute a sophisticate harlot and a commodities for this confused humanity.  LDF


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Some writings .....on the  "SELF"

1/2/2016

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In the I AMNESS
are no thoughts
are no eyes
there is no world
only awareness of being
existence.


Coming to the experience of the formless, the Self, the Spirit, Atman.
It  has been a  natural evolution to create shapes and forms that enclose space. The space within the contour of the outer lines becomes an entity itself . Similarly the body form,  encloses the formless consciousness, the essence itself that cannot be objectified.... yet it becomes what one sees in it but it is not what it is seen.
IAMNESS  the formless in which all is contained, seen, felt.


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continue to explore the visual space within geometrical shape. The shape is uplifted by  columns that originate from  spontaneous insights
Their function is to elevate the main character: The inner  space that the shape contains.  In similar way the mind/body is contained in consciousness. It  is  mistake of identification to believe that ONE is the thinker and the  body. I am always exited to express  visually THAT which is  valuable to our experience.
 Circles triangles rhomboids are visually simple and pure as it is our very nature.   


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January 1st, 2016

1/1/2016

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In the Beginning...

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Ciao, I am an sculptor first, but I will try to put some of my thoughts and feelings down on these pages of my blog for those of you interested in reading me. This is my first blog, I'm still learning the way things work here, but I hope to be posting more in the near future. If you would like to know a little more about me, Lorenzo, please take a look at my biography, or if you would like to ask me a question or just leave a comment, please get in contact with me.  Thank you for taking the time to check out my blog, great things will be coming to this page, right after I get back from India.  Oh, yes, India, that will be a good story for you all.  
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