YOU ARE SO I WAS STONE HEARTED - A work on the observation of the inner and outer worlds.
Acrylic paint on Carrara marble. Height 45 cm x width 110 x depth 3 cm and weight ca 50 kg.
YOU ARE SO I WAS STONE HEARTED is an introspective graffiti on a triangular marble (waste) slab communicating the process of inner hardening and softening.
The expression of an inner dialogue on a stone tablet, reflecting on healing and transformation. YOU ARE SO I WAS STONE HEARTED is the result of understanding oneself, after (self-) forgiveness and through the cleansing power of creation.
Before, there was this feeling of stone-heartedness, within the maker but also how the maker judged the outside world. Now looking backwards after multiple creations over time and - an inner dipping process of - observing and understanding even forgiving oneself and others, the heart is no longer in pain and harsh.
Therefore, the pink text (a loving, innocent, nourishing colour) I WAS is added over the text YOU ARE SO, symbolizing the current softer state of being.
Yet YOU ARE SO is still visible, for the past cannot be erased, though embraced.
At the same time, the work points to people who are still hardened. A tongue of cheek regarding the outside world and a former lover.
The lower left ‘S’ resembles a dollar sign on purpose. Money $ makes one, people and society in general, stone-hearted.
YOU ARE SO I WAS STONE HEARTED tags refinement - the polished marble stone - with raw imperfection. The text and the nasty written black dripping ‘weeping’ letters express the inner conversation and introspective analysis. It could have been spoken, or written on paper, now it was painted on a marble.
When the work is placed flat on the floor, one could perceive YOU ARE SO I WAS STONE HEARTED as a contemporary, self-reflective, memorial stone…
YOU ARE SO I WAS STONE HEARTED by Roos Schneijderberg
Acrylic paint on triangular Carrara marble (waste) piece
Height 45 cm x width 110 x depth 3 cm and weight ca 50 kg.