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A goddess carved from smoky quartz, rising from the raw crystal cluster she grew out of. One of one.
"Goddess" is a carved female figure worked from smoky quartz and set upon — and continuous with — a natural smoky-quartz crystal cluster. The polished figure emerges from the unworked points of the matrix, finished form lifting out of raw crystal, the made and the found held in one piece.
Smoky quartz takes its brown-to-gray translucency from natural irradiation acting on trace aluminum within the quartz lattice over geological time; it registers 7 on the Mohs scale. Leaving the cluster raw beneath the carved figure sets the lapidary's hand directly against the geology's, and lends the goddess the gravity and inward shadow the stone is named for.
The goddess — the divine feminine — is among the oldest and most enduring subjects in sculpture. Rendered in a smoky, half-lit stone rather than bright marble, she reads less as idol than as presence: something surfacing from the dark of the crystal rather than standing apart from it.
Luis Alberto Quispe Aparicio is a Peruvian-born lapidary sculptor and creative director of L'Aquart, heir to a family atelier whose tradition reaches back to 1968. An engineer by training, he gave the bench what engineering could not match; his carved works are held in museum collections worldwide, and since 2010 he has collaborated with S.T. Dupont on Haute Création pieces. His practice insists on harmony between lapidary carving, metalwork and structural planning — and on refusing difficulty as a reason not to proceed.
Surround Art & Diamonds — North American representative of L'Aquart — presents this work as a singular object at the intersection of lapidary art, fine craft and collecting, with nearly a decade placing Quispe Aparicio's sculptures in private collections across the United States and Europe.
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