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The Wonderful Sculpture and Staircases of  Jop van Driel

My daily work is modelling with wood. When I make something I am aware of the resistance of the wood. The wood does not want to be or to be shaped like I have borne in mind how it should be. A tree wants to be a tree and not a staircase or a statue. Every day I am busy ‘taming’ the wood just like a horse (in its heart a horse doesn’t want to be tamed). When you have been working with a natural material as long as I’ve been doing it and recognize its unbelievable beauty, you just can’t help getting tremendously much awe for nature.

The few leisure hours I have I use to make free shape work. During my whole life I have been fascinated and busy shaping organic lines. But also life and its transitoriness. This branch is a result of ideas I have been working with in my mind for a long time. This is the first image which in some way approaches the creations of what I eventually like to make.

Sam Szafran (French, b. 1934), L’escalier, 54 rue de Seine, 1992. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 52.8 x 37.8 cm.

cage d’escalier

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Round and Round by ivorberry

Genova, Spiral staircase 2014-06-23 180307 BW SEP by AnZanov

In ThE HearT oF ThE BeasT ! # by GuillaumeRio

Alexander Kindlen, The Maelstrom // The Descent, analogue & digital mixed media, 2014.

Blue spiral by KingaSorbn