Labour Life (The Miner's Burden) Bronze Figurative Sculpture
Labour Life (The Miner's Burden)
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Description
This sculptural image fuses a miner’s pickaxe with a human profile, collapsing tool and body into a single, unsettling emblem of labor’s intimacy with identity. The diagonal thrust of the handle reads like a forceful vector across a low, stratified base, while the metallic patina—warm bronze against cooler oxidized greens—suggests time, extraction, and the slow corrosion of industry into memory. By turning a utilitarian instrument into a face, the work implies that what we use to break the earth also shapes the contours of the self, leaving behind a quiet monument to endurance and cost.
Additional Information
| Type |
Original |
|---|---|
| Size |
10x13x3 |
| Material |
Bronze |