The Sum of Many Parts

The Sum of Many Parts
2024
Sculpture in Carrara marble
13 x 27 x 30.5cm
Commissioned for Lady Dior As Seen By

The sum of many parts.

The becoming of things.

Creation and transformation.

From point to line to pattern to structure.

An arrangement, a construct, an ecosystem.

The form emerges.

Matter reveals itself.

The Sum of Many Parts is an arrangement of prisms based on the eponymous Cannage design of the Lady Dior. Taking reference from children’s building blocks, the hand-finished Carrara marble units transform the two-dimensional Cannage pattern into a three-dimensional structure. Amplified by the play of light and shadows on the geometric faces, the indentations and extrusions of the marble composition reveal the intrinsic materiality of the metamorphic marble as a dynamic creation of nature.

Images courtesy of Dior and Juliana Tan