Progressing materially, structurally, and phenomenologically from raw, dark, densely-opaque elemental metal to refined, radiant, translucent, semi-precious golden stone, alternately polished and matte, a portrait formed from a panoply of elements germane to the subject’s life and stature, linked by a dense curvilinear network of freely conceived hyper-Baroque tendrils, emerges. Visible through and on the lacy, knotted, swirling matrix that comprises the head, neck, and miter is a symbolic significant-figure-and-object array, replete with a pair of reduced-scale busts depicting the late subject, respectively, in old and middle age. The accompanying bespoke soundtrack – expanding, then exploding – aurally echoes the visuals.
poet, playwright, author, student, athlete, linguist, librarian, messenger, laborer, seminarian, priest, doctor, professor, traveler
Vicar, Successor, Head, Primate, Metropolitan, Sovereign, Bishop, Archbishop, Pontiff, Pope
a complex life ➔ a corresponding sculpture ➔ a virtual tour de force
