NOTATIONS AND ACROLITHS > ACROLITHS

ACROLITH: a composite sculpture made of stone and other materials, as in the case of a figure whose clothed parts are made of wood, while the exposed flesh parts such as head, hands, and feet are made of marble.

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However worn and faded, the material surfaces of Greco-Roman sculptures overflow with signs of living and dying. The corrosion of fading representations of cloth enhances and revamps how we experience these surfaces. Vanishing textures offer opportunities to ‘make sense’ in at least two ways at once: to discern semantic meaning whenever possible, and to make meaning sensually, through matter.