length: 40 centimeters
materials: terracotta, iron
 
€  700 (with shipping)
$ 750 (with shipping)
 
 
Most of female figures that were ever excavated and found were named Venus – of something. In total, over 200 such figurines are known- they were all modest in size, between about 3 and 40 cm. The original cultural meaning and purpose of these artefacts is not known. It has frequently been suggested that they may have served a ritual or symbolic function. There are widely varying and speculative interpretations of their use or meaning: they have been seen as religious figures, an expression of health and fertility and similar.
 
This July, when I vigorously started preparing drafts for new daggers and swords, I thought it might finally be done. A fully sculptural handle and a suggestive blade. Before that, I used the handle as an area I can express a thought or an idea – I was adjusting the idea to the form, and this time I decided to adjust the form to the idea.
 
Before I started working on the handle, I made the dagger, and later I sketched the figurine on paper, cut it just to have it as a size reference and a model. 
It ended up being a dagger much different than the others, it has evolved into something more. 
 
Although the blade itself suggests much older history; it impersonates flint - the figurine is leaning towards late paleolithic art –
What was different and strange was finding a way to make it look absolutely naive and primitively sculpted, relying mostly on imprinting, and knowing when to stop.