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Atlas Axis Royal College of Surgeons public art commision by Remco de Fouw.

Atlas/Axis

Royal College of Surgeons

Stone and Glass

2017

Atlas Axis attempts to explore the relationship between the eternal and the fleeting or transitory,  between the mute and the articulate, or visible and invisible. Not to over do the metaphors, it could be said to go so far as to explore the relationship between spirit and matter. but in a way where darkness becomes light. The two pieces Atlas and Axis, after the first two vertebra of the spine on which the globe of the head sits. This is the area where matter and signal or impulse somehow magically becomes spirit or consciousness. It is one of the universes greatest mysteries, and one we are unlikely to ever have a definitive explanation for.

Atlas/Axis has a companion piece Terravision ➜

Atlas Axis upclose detail of glass aperture

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