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---becomes the knowing!
Shona Art, to me, is very seductive and extremely beautiful.
The variety of soft and hard coloured stone that is used invites one to explore it, both visually and mentally. It is mesmerizing to sit an contemplate.
This lovely piece is out of Serpentine stone and was done by Elliot Katombera who is a young Shoto Artist who works out of Harare, Zimbabwe.
The serpentine group describes a group of common rock-forming hydrous magnesium iron phyllosilicate minerals; they may contain minor amounts of other elements including chromium, manganese, cobalt and nickel.
In mineralogy and gemology, serpentine may refer to any of 20 varieties belonging to the serpentine group.There are three important mineral polymorphs of serpentine: antigorite, chrysotile and lizardite.
In the variety found throughout Zimbabwe its colours vary from black to brown to green, orange and variegated. Hardness level varies from very soft to vary hard. Measured on a moss scale where a diamond is ten, serpentine goes from 1.2 up to 6.54. The majority of the sculptors today, however do not carve from soft serpentine, but rather select deposits of rock that are hard and therefore more durable.
Katombera is around 30 years old and has been working with Shona Sclupture for the last 15 years.
This small piece also graces my home.
---becomes the knowing!
Shona Art, to me, is very seductive and extremely beautiful.
The variety of soft and hard coloured stone that is used invites one to explore it, both visually and mentally. It is mesmerizing to sit an contemplate.
This lovely piece is out of Serpentine stone and was done by Elliot Katombera who is a young Shoto Artist who works out of Harare, Zimbabwe.
The serpentine group describes a group of common rock-forming hydrous magnesium iron phyllosilicate minerals; they may contain minor amounts of other elements including chromium, manganese, cobalt and nickel.
In mineralogy and gemology, serpentine may refer to any of 20 varieties belonging to the serpentine group.There are three important mineral polymorphs of serpentine: antigorite, chrysotile and lizardite.
In the variety found throughout Zimbabwe its colours vary from black to brown to green, orange and variegated. Hardness level varies from very soft to vary hard. Measured on a moss scale where a diamond is ten, serpentine goes from 1.2 up to 6.54. The majority of the sculptors today, however do not carve from soft serpentine, but rather select deposits of rock that are hard and therefore more durable.
Katombera is around 30 years old and has been working with Shona Sclupture for the last 15 years.
This small piece also graces my home.