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Sculpture in Carrara Marble -
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Peter Schipperheyn was awarded an Italian Government Scholarship to attend the Academia di Belli Arti in Carrara, living, working and studying for a year in 1979- 80.
Travels annually to Italy to select marble for new projects.

The language of stone

I fell in love with marble, with Carrara, with Italy.

"White….. Optimism virgin marble treasured medium pure hard crystals crisp like fresh linen bedded down

when the earth heaved and groaned witness to the mountains in formation one can be tender caress the stone yet stubbornly it resists even your violence the days end 

and afternoon calm intrusion penetration of the block the definition of FORM ever sensual ever changing

I think of our child in the womb of my wife…….."

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Schip Carrara 1983

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