Joe Brittain
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This work is most like a body and most like a landscape.

The possibly extraterrestrial black diamond chuncks hold up the heavy white marble. The small diamonds exude their inner strength by supporting 110 lb blocks. The form is that of a book: two hard opaque covers concealing a center of sparkling and deep, concentrated wonder, a metaphor for a body.

The diamond and the stone are polar opposites in the artist’s mind – rough cut/polished straight sides, black/white, small/big, strong/soft, terrestrial/extraterrestrial, they balance each other and understand each other through opposition – which is how consciousness is formed.

We think of landscape as outside of us, but we are an extension of the world, we operate on the same cycles and are made of the same things.