THEY may not seem much, the broken blocks and pieces of marble left scattered at one corner of the St Nicholas Home for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Bagan Jermal, Penang.
Passers-by may even wonder what kind of rocks and why they are there.
Well, they are Ipoh white marble, after some 40 days of labour and sweat by stone artist Mitsuo Kikuchi.
“I’m tired, the work is 80% complete and it has to stop here for now,” the artist said recently.
He said he would return home to Japan for some additional tools before coming back to finish the piece dubbed “Under a Penang Sky.”
The beauty of his creation is yet to be made obvious to the onlookers, waiting for a proper public site where the different marble pieces will then be mounted together into a single giant showpiece – the second in a series of outdoor sculptures under the Penang Island Sculpture Trail project.
THEY may not seem much, the broken blocks and pieces of marble left scattered at one corner of the St Nicholas Home for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Bagan Jermal, Penang.
Passers-by may even wonder what kind of rocks and why they are there.
Well, they are Ipoh white marble, after some 40 days of labour and sweat by stone artist Mitsuo Kikuchi.
“I’m tired, the work is 80% complete and it has to stop here for now,” the artist said recently.
He said he would return home to Japan for some additional tools before coming back to finish the piece dubbed “Under a Penang Sky.”
The beauty of his creation is yet to be made obvious to the onlookers, waiting for a proper public site where the different marble pieces will then be mounted together into a single giant showpiece – the second in a series of outdoor sculptures under the Penang Island Sculpture Trail project.
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