Ohps... it's a year since I put something here... Time flies.
I very recently found the art of Bruno Walpoth, an italian sculptor and draughtsman who creates the most tender lifelike wooden sculptures of adolescents. In contrast, his drawing simply burns with intensity.
Flicking through his work I came across this beautiful sleeping hermaphrodite. Unfortunately his web site is pretty spartan so there's no story attached.
I'm sure that his sleeping hermaphrodite refers to the famous classic sculpture below, the roman copy of a greek original (as always), The Sleeping Hermaphroditus.
The sleeping forms gives us the opportunity to satisfy our curiosity of the strange without having to admit that we're staring. The vulnerability of the sleeping forms removes most of what we might find confronting but they also shuts us out of their mysterious world.
