Aleph Geddis: Angles
“I saw a small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brilliance... Each thing (a mirror’s face, let us say) was infinite things, since I distinctly saw it from every angle of the universe.”
Set in Stone is pleased to debut our first partnership with a contemporary artist, Aleph Geddis. Raised on Orcas Island in the Pacific Northwest of America, Geddis drew early inspiration as an apprentice to his stepfather, a sculptor, carver and builder of wooden boats. Aleph’s traditional, painstaking methods using handmade tools, and his proximity to Native American carvings have been joined with an intimate knowledge of Indonesian monkey pod wood, since he spends time between his carving shed studios in Bali and Washington state.
There is an elegant resonance between the Axis Mundi Collection and Aleph Geddis’ modernist geometrical sculptures. The artist carves them according to the integral shapes of Platonic solids, which he believes hold sublime truth beyond human subjectivity — a magical existence that precedes us and will outlast us. A dedicated artisan, Aleph uses these forms as a way to explore the paradoxes that surround him, and to make some offering of beauty and integrity back into the world.
