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Really, what's the point?

Sculpture of exploded chess rooks by Bourdon Brindille
Exploded Rooks and 1/8th of Chess Board
Sapelle, Beech and Mixed media


Rook Heights 6.5cm
Board 48 x 7.5cm

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Sculpture of exploded chess rooks by Bourdon Brindille
Sculpture of exploded chess rooks by Bourdon Brindille
Chess is as ripe and as sweet and as ready to pluck for a metaphor as any good-god-damn-thing could ever be.
It is the story of humanity (at least up until this point) in a nutshell. It is about dualism, and difference, it's about hierarchy and progression, it is about movement, fighting, tactics, defeat, success, religion, deceit and death and everything in between. 
So I ran with it… Let them speak for themselves.

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