Gallery Entry
Head Artefact 040
By George Kroustallis / Minorstep · GB
A head folds back through itself. Repeated brows and elongated facial planes form deep channels, so the eye keeps losing the boundary between one face and the next. A worn, stone-like surface gives this impossible anatomy the apparent weight of a surviving object. Part of my HEAD ARTIFACTS studies, the work draws on Minoan and broader Aegean forms, pushing their proportions into a sculptural optical illusion. I wanted it to feel excavated without belonging to an identifiable civilisation. The face remains recognisable, but repetition makes its identity unstable. The image borrows the visual authority of an archaeological object while withholding the history that would explain it. Its material is generated, its past imagined. It is a digital image of a possible sculpture, not a photograph of a fabricated artefact. That tension between convincing evidence and invention is the work.