Video: Derek Weisberg's sad sculptures
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Each of us has moments of sadness in our lives, and we always want to get through them faster. And for Auckland sculptor Derek Weisberg, sadness and melancholy are the best sources of inspiration. During his short creative career, the author has already created hundreds of sculptures - but you will not find traces of fun on any of the ceramic faces.
“My works are emotional and psychological self-portraits,” explains Weisberg. - Through my work, I try to understand the meaning of my life, my experience and the time in which I live. I do not strive for photographic accuracy, but instead try to achieve depth. My goal is to create images that are accessible and allow the viewer to get an experience that is not easy to articulate, but can be felt. According to Derek Weisberg, in his works he tries to express basic human emotions that are universal and timeless.
Derek Weisberg states: "To know what a person feels is to know what he is … especially when it comes to expressing feelings such as pain, sadness, etc." The author began to create sad sculptures soon after the death of his mother. Derek says that according to Jewish tradition, the travel of the soul in the afterlife depends on the actions of those who live on earth. Therefore, with his work, the author seems to support his mother after death and admits that the creation of sculptures has become a kind of ritual for him.
Someone's death, according to Weisberg, is the most unique situation in life; "She is both familiar and alien, categorical and embarrassing, guaranteed and incomprehensible." Sad sculptures combine all these characteristics and help the author to cope with the loss of a loved one.
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