Spirit Emerging
From The Rock
Antony Masamba

Springstone

121cm (h)
25cm (w)
23cm (d)

£1,100

"People believed that ancestral spirits can emerge from the rocks - in particular in caves such as Chinhoyi and Domboshawa."

In Shona sculpture, the spirits are often represented as a hole in the sculpture, a portal between this world and the spirit world. Here, it rises up as if the spirit is stretching up out of the rock below.

Springstone is the local name for a hard variant of serpentine stone. It is a particularly good sculpture medium, as it has a very even internal structure of small grains of rock; it is dense and has very few flaws. It is the favoured medium for Zimbabwe's most famous sculptors.

Springstone is frost-resistant and is suitable for outdoor display.