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Rene Dayan-Whitehead

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Stone carving is the culmination of the passions of a lifetime. As a youth I always collected rocks. In fact, to me, all rocks were beautiful; the brown ones the shiny ones the rough ones…I collected many boxes of them. Throughout my personal and professional life everything I have gravitated to has been related to form in three dimensions; dancing, costume design, product development and design, art classes, masks, and now sculpture. The distillation of these elements came surprisingly through a class offering. I thought it would be fun as well as great therapy (hitting a rock with a hammer!). Once I started I never stopped. My work is an expression of the dance of form, movement and transformation. The subject and forms of the work emerge from a personal definition of alchemy, myth and time, concepts that are both physical and metaphysical.