Daniel Dillen – Breaking the Stone Cold Silence

Name of Artist: Daniel Dillen

Title of Piece: Breaking the Stone Cold Silence

About the Piece: It began with a single face. Almost featureless, sunken eyes and mouth open as if silently screaming out. From there more faces were made and embedded within a solid block, as if they were slowly making their way out.

One interpretation is to view the solid block as the silence that surrounds us all when faced with something we know little about or choose not to speak of in public. A lack of awareness. The emerging faces, silently screaming out break that silences. Not with sound, but by their implied action. There doesn’t need to be a silence surrounding any affliction. Be heard and consciously become aware.

About the Artist: I am a product designer by training. An artist by experimentation. The experience I have in sculpture is minimal. Most of the work done is with metal, occasionally finding a way to work in other materials.

My experience with chronic pain is through the friends I have that suffer from it. I may suffer from many other things, none are chronic or disabilitating.