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La virgen Anama en llantoThe anorexia and bulimia rostrum

Diego Sarmiento

Sculptor

Bogot, Colombia (57) (1) 318 511 44 48 Miami, Florida (1) 786 366 42 27

Copyright

2010

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Anama is the rostrum of a 19 year old

woman with food disorders, mortified by

her advanced illness but with a clear look

of senseless satisfaction. Her expression

shows a feeling of deep sadness in the exact

point when the tears are about to drop.

This beautiful white soapstone was found by the artist in Colombia nearBogotas plains in a town called Fagua at the moon city.

Diego used the

antique technique of

hand chiseling to give

form to this mind-blowing stone.

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Its so incredible

that some think it

isnt a natural

stone, made during

millions of years,

changing and

adopting inimitable

textures and colors;a masterpiece itself.

Its unique pattern of natural

colors come from light pinks to

dark blues, which match

perfectly with its deep white.

Wide open

nose taking

that deep

breath to her

heart.

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Teeth erosion caused by

low calcium due to bad

nutrition and dry lips for

dehydration.

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The rock itself has this

amazing blood like colors

that show bruises along

her face and acts as if she

had painted herself with

the blood of her shame.

The artist used different number of grits in

the sandpapers as always, but this time he

didnt gave an equalized sanding, so he

left hair textures different from lips or

teeth as well as skin, eyes and even so the

rings under eyes; feel to tell.

Hair lost caused

by low vitamin

levels in the

body.

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Young ladies from over the

world subscribed to this website,

wrote in the blogs, and

committed themselves in a

religious way with these two

fictional characters in some sort

of sect, where the anorexia and

bulimic even made prayers and

songs for Ana and Mia, changing

the perspective of a life risking

infirmity to a popular deathrace to be the skinniest one.

The title of this piece

reacts to a reality of

premature deaths. As I

researched the web for

anorexia and bulimia

info to come along with

this project, I found a

website about two sort

of goddess, Ana which

represented anorexiaand Mia bulimia.

It s the reality of a condition

in one expression.

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Diego Alejandro Sarmiento Suarez is an artist specialized in the old

fashioned Italian way of hand chiseling such as renaissance artist, giving the

stone time and value. At his 23 years has developed his art in a way to

become an stone sculptor; he tried to paint at first, studying different

drawing techniques, having a summer love with this two dimensional art

expression. Feeling bored about his creations and fake artist, throws the

pencil away and gets his hand full of mud, feeling great as a new love

comes along, but once again his art expressions need more voltage and hestarts to think big, huge.

In a summer day, at his 1920s house in the Macarena neighborhood at

Bogotas downtown, he finds a sort of flat chisel in his backyard next to a

hammer, something unusual as he tells because it was laying there as if

someone put them there for him, he grabbed them and ran to his girlfriend

and asked her to go with him on his first stone hunting experience without

any knowledge at all. He found this badly shaped stone made of concrete

and started hitting it; he made his first shape of a face with some skull parts

showing as a protest to the antipersonnel mines in Choc, Colombia. He felt

a connection from the beginning with stone carving, he completely forgotabout mud, and wanted to make pieces that will last for a long time, that

needed more time and effort, where the artist had a full time relationship

with nature and perfection.

He studied deeply the different carving techniques, and decided to focus

only on natural stones. Even though Colombia isnt a place where stone

sculpting is well instructed, Diego has known the way to come along and

be an exceptional representative of Colombias art around the world.

Nowadays Guinchi, as is

known by his close ones,lives in Fonquet, a small

town near Bogot,

Colombia which is famous

for his rock canter; there

he has his workshop and is

where his art is exploded.

Diego continues his studies

in Colombia and is on his

way to Greece to improve

his sculpting skills at Tinos's

carving studio. Photography by Adriana Canal

Context killed the artist.Guinchi