Conflict//Craft

Year : 2017
Dimension : 63 × 53 × 13.5 cm (Height × Length × Depth)
Weight : 1920 grams
Edition Size : Unique piece
Artist : Mahmood Rafati
Material : Natural wood in organic form, raw-carved with polished base
Technique : Sculpting with natural wood in an organic, raw-carved form to create a tension-laden body with two opposing heads, paired with a polished base to highlight the conceptual contrast between conflict and stability. The technique emphasizes the ongoing tension between creation and destruction, balance and rupture—central to the duality of human nature.

A structure of entangled branches, opposing heads, and a body balanced in tension— as if built to endure, yet doomed to conflict. Inspired by philosophical reflections on creation and humanity: if man is the pinnacle of craft, why so much ruin? *Conflict//Craft* is a portrait of a being that is both architecture and collapse, desiring peace, yet born of war.

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