Song Hongquan, "Four Dumplings," 2017

The son of a noted stone carver, Song Hongquan inherited his father’s affinity for manipulating diverse materials such as granite, marble, and basite. In "Four Dumplings," Song hand-carved four incredibly life-like dumplings on a plate from a single slab of white marble. The piece is part of an ongoing body of work that depicts objects from his everyday life growing up in a village in China. Cooking utensils, hand tools, miniature stools and tables, and the like are all painstakingly carved from granite and marble, recalling a simpler way of life that has been quickly disappearing in his country.

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