cm.59x40x22 - 1991

The flying Dutchman? Why that tale of desperation to be moulded into clay, and then cast in plaster and bronze thereafter.

No special reason in fact.

But the piece starting developing with enough complexity of forms that made me think of some kind of drama, with contrasting forces in it. Then some anthropomorphic being appeared to be deeply intertwined with some kind of vessel complete with a sale-like formation.

So only then the piece became, for me, the Flying Dutchman. Some stories are long to tell, some aren’t. This is a simple one.

I soon became very involved with working with the interaction of the manifold composition elements, and forgot about anything else. I could have called it ‘untitled’ for all it matters. But in the end the image of the solitary seaman fighting against a perpetual storm, in a legendary ghost ship that never can make port, doomed by sorcery to sail the oceans for ever, found it’s way for a lasting impression.

Giorgio Attilio Ceccarelli