Today's featured sculpture
Eagle by Walter Mariga
Weight: 6kg
Genre: Birds
Stone type: Lepidolite
Sculptor Information
The son of Joram Mariga, Walter was born in 1973. He gained experience polishing his father’s work but began sculpting in his own right in 1992.
He views stone carving as “traditional for my family” and like his
father, uses established cultural and spiritual beliefs in combination
with natural rock forms as his inspiration.
“The subject comes from my head and also from the shape of the stone: I would chip a little bit and it would form this way and that.” Eagle (1994, Lepidolite) symbolises the traditional Chapungu bird while Hyena (1994, Leopard Stone) portrays a powerful animal about to attack. “When people used to travel around, Hyenas would hide behind the rocks waiting to attack people…and you can see this…he is a little bad but not like a lion!”
Walter Mariga believes he will continue carving and his ambition for the future is to work on a much larger scale.
“The subject comes from my head and also from the shape of the stone: I would chip a little bit and it would form this way and that.” Eagle (1994, Lepidolite) symbolises the traditional Chapungu bird while Hyena (1994, Leopard Stone) portrays a powerful animal about to attack. “When people used to travel around, Hyenas would hide behind the rocks waiting to attack people…and you can see this…he is a little bad but not like a lion!”
Walter Mariga believes he will continue carving and his ambition for the future is to work on a much larger scale.
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