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Samurai Ronin Bronze Sculpture (Ltd Ed of 10 only) Sculpture - Limited Edition of 10

Brandon Borgelt

South Africa

Sculpture, Bronze on Bronze

Size: 26 W x 46 H x 34 D in

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This is a piece I have been wanting to create for several years. Many things contributed to the initial inspiration but I never felt the time was right and I hadn’t formulated the entire concept completely in my head. After completing a smaller Samurai I was finally ready to break out and just let it flow. During the process I made many changes and added things that I initially never intended to, so it evolved very organically. I sculpted the piece in a very loose and imprecise manner but also included much painstaking detail where I felt it was needed. I loved being able to just freely express myself with no regard for any limitations in terms of size and cost. This piece I have called my “Ronin” Samurai. Ronin being a samurai who has fallen out of favor and privilege with his master and is now a ‘wanderer’ or ‘drifter’ with no allegiance and who answers to no man. However, his stance and the fact that he is disintegrating and flying apart evoke themes of introspection, self-assessment, re-evaluation of self- concept, dissolution of the self / ego and he may in fact be taking his journey to the afterlife as suggested by the crow bursting out of his back. (The crow is a symbol of the passage of the soul to the next world). As always, the interpretation is best left to the observer but this piece for me evokes many different concepts, themes, ideas and feelings. I hope that as you study it, your own interpretations, feelings and memories will appear through the mists of the subconscious and stir something deep inside. me to tackle this project.

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Sculpture:Bronze on Bronze

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:10

Size:26 W x 46 H x 34 D in

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Hi, I was born in Johannesburg in 1966 and grew up here. I moved to Durban at the age of 15 and and worked part time at the Dolphinarium and the Snake Park. After school I spent the next 20 years working in the wildlife industry on various game reserves and also did a couple of stints filming lions and hyenas in the Okavango Swamps and the Namib Desert. I have always dabbled in creative endeavours whether its drawing or photography but really only started sculpting in bronze in 2000. It's something that lay dormant since the age of 7 when I saw a bronze Native American which ignited the flame. I am totally self taught and have never received any formal tuition. This perhaps made my initial forays into sculpting a little clumsy but the more I sculpt, the more I evolve my techniques and ideas. My progression is very organic. My favorite subjects are the human form, African wildlife because I have spent so much time working with animals and Native American themed subjects as I have, since my earliest memories, had an acute affinity to them and their culture. Of late my creativity has exploded and I have pushed myself further and further, exploring a much looser and more organic style as I feel this adds far more character to the sculpture and engages the imagination much more deeply. It also represents my own spiritual transformation which is ever more expansive.

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