Novica Teak Relief Sculpture
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Facing death on the cross, Christ wears a crown of spiny thorns. For Christians, Good Friday marks a decisive moment as Jesus offers his life to atone for the world's sin. George Obeng works in warm teakwood to carve this sensitive relief sculpture for the wall. Product Features: Worldstock Country: Ghana Product Features: Handmade Material: Wood Color: Black, Brown Story Behind the Art: George Obeng was born on March 30, 1952. His carvings are realized primarily in ebony wood, as the material is endowed with innate strength and beauty that requires no chemical enhancement. Mahogany, odum (oak), sese, and odanta are other woods he employs, although these need to be treated for preservation. Obeng prefers to leave his ebony carvings unpolished, he says, Because the beauty and natural sheen of the wood in nature is left on perpetual display. The artist is motivated to carve by one principal theme: Recording the events of his time. As an animal rights activist and a committed vegetarian, wildlife plays an integral role in his work, such as the tenderness of the butterfly, the mischief of the monkey, the slowness of the snail, and the vivacious character of the bird. Each of his carvings is a poignant reminder of this critical juncture in the preservation of the global environment and communal ecology. Themes of the Third World also inspire Obeng's art. Depictions of female figures, often carrying children and heavy baskets simultaneously; comments on the cyclical problem of social confusion and irresolution, which extend into the endemic nature of inadequate and/or nonexistent development of facilities like health care, education, food, security. He is an observer of his time, struggling to represent the myriad unheard voices that surround him.
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