THE SCAR WILL BE YOUR TREASURE - A serene ‘heavenly’ table about Enlightenment.
Calacatta Gold marble, 24 carat gold, 18 carat gold, stainless steel and cast epoxy. Height 74 cm x width 235 cm x depth 130 cm and weight ca. 250 kg.
THE SCAR WILL BE YOUR TREASURE is an aesthetic, philosophical, conceptual piece expressing the human capability of transforming inner pain into one’s purpose. The result of genuine introspection.
THE SCAR WILL BE YOUR TREASURE may be serene in terms of colour, but is capriciously cut and has a scar with 8 whimsically pointy stitches made of solid gold. The inside of the scar contains of 24 carat gold - which is actuality too soft and fragile to be used for the stitches. The eight stitches are therefore made from 18 carat jewellery gold.
The stitches are intentionally irregularly affixed as an extra imperfect detail. The golden scar and its stitches are deliberately tangible in relief. While significant scars, remain tactile in one’s skin.
The perfectly imperfect scar in this piece symbolises transformation over time. The valuable psychological process that the painfullest experiences are often most destructive but become greatest purposeful.
The marble used for this work is, is not by coincidence, called Calacatta Gold marble - traces of gold and other precious metals can be found in this type of marble.
The work THE SCAR WILL BE YOUR TREASURE contains traces of pyrite and has an unusual and unique natural hue. In addition to the grey and brown veins, it also bears an orange and a very bright mint-green shade, a combination which is rarely seen.
The table base was made by hand of cast epoxy.
The colour blue is so light and delicate making it nearly white, and subtly illuminating, to give this piece a fatherly lightness.
‘If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.’
The shape and the colours of this calming work evoke associations of a strange kind of heaven with its sharp cut cloud top and its single holy-light-blue-sky base.
THE SCAR WILL BE YOUR TREASURE is able to unite contrasting energies into one harmonious softly pulsing piece. The sharp cut lightness tells the story of one reaching enlightenment. A holy marriage of uniting opposites in oneself and in the outside world.
The title THE SCAR WILL BE YOUR TREASURE also has a humoristic twist, for the scar becomes literally a small golden treasure for its new owner. But eventually attaining enlightenment is the ultimate treasure.
THE SCAR WILL BE YOUR TREASURE by Roos Schneijderberg.
Calacatta Gold marble, 24 carat gold, 18 carat gold, stainless steel, epoxy.
Height 74 cm x width 235 cm x depth 130 cm and weight ca. 250 kg.