Martin Henrik

According to our knowledge, the only living creature with standing the circumstances of the outer space without any technical help is the tardigrade. Seemingly it is able to suspend its life activity, so neither the lack of oxygen, nor the cold or the radiation do harm to it. So to say, a real alien. This animal, tolerating extra conditions in the nature, lives in the moss. Even the largest is smaller than 2 mm. Some varieties can eject a calcite dagger from its mouth. “Its odd moving and the form of its folds seized my imagination. I carved out a tardigrade from an andesite rock of 1×0.5 meter size. Had it existed in this size, perhaps it would be the most dangerous beast of the world.”

Staring your eyes in the mirror for long, suddenly your face disappears. They say the eye is the mirror of the soul. So when we explore our own look, we seek the answer: who am I? Our eyes see a man without ego, a void around him. It is like a space travel. Perhaps it is a Buddha’s effect? “

“Having a Derkovits scholarship, I undertook to make the statue of Bodhidharma. He transferred the Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism to China; you can see his face in many places. I thought you must imagine his eternal figure in the endless space: a faceless space Buddha, in a red spacesuit, with oxygen tanks…

Wandering your fantasy in the Universe. In the dark sky, asteroids wandering. Shapeless basalt fragments are racing towards our planet, starting to melt when entering the atmosphere, as meteors.

“Carving the first pieces of the ‘Asteroids’, I planned the crater sites a forehand. The result was not natural at all; I needed to carve out in a different way. I figured out the form roughly, then I randomly engraved the craters without thinking on it. I think on this statues as nonfigurative and realistic works at the same time.”

You treat the stones as inanimate objects. “ My Moonplants are living, growing from crystals. It was difficult to carve out, because if a careless move breaks a piece, the statue is over. One day I made a branch separately. When my father saw it, he asked frightened: broken off? He relieved that it was an other.”

The ‘Meditation Object’, the ‘Hyper-Gothic-Pyramid’ and the ‘TSR Moons’ are peering at the sky likely. “ I like mathematics. I made geometric shapes as drawing first, then of paper, finally I carved to stone.”

Until we can decipher the mystery of Buddha, we must acquaint with the mysterious gaze of Vidya, the “Face of Vigiance”.