Small Decorative Room Sculpture – Parthenon

Room sculpture

Making this modern wooden room sculpture was a journey backwards.

Normally I get inspired by something and then I try to realize that inspiration in wood and paint.

In this case I gave myself the task to build “something”. Just looking for an unusual shape, this partly rectangular and partly skewed, this object grew.

To make it less solid one side got bars and the front a door with window pane.

Incorporating glass marbles in the sides increases the transparency.

Transparent sculpture

The inside of this small decorative room sculpture is as visible as the outside.

The pattern from the outside continues at the inside.

Where the gold leaf and marbles, by better reflecting the light, even seek more attention than at the outside.

Growing in the process , my “task” became a fantasy cabinet.

The left side of the cabinet with the bars remembered me of pictures of the Parthenon, a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis. So the title of this sculpture became Parthenon.

room sculpture:
Width: 27 cm
Height: 40 cm
Depth: 25 cm

18 mm pine wood
wooden balls
glass marbles
window pane