Auriea Harvey’s mother/child, is derived from a 3d scan of the artist’s niece and her son, made as they slept in the backseat of a car during a road trip in 2016. It is the artist’s contemporary version of a pietà, in the spirit of Michelangelo's famous iteration, just a few blocks from the artist’s home. The artist captures a quiet and candid moment in the day of a young mother, capturing the joy and youthful exuberance via color choices and the use of the silk-like ribbons. Though the child represented in red symbolizes the heavy burden of parenthood, the duo relax into one another in peace and equilibrium.

Interactive GLB, 3D model in HTML environment, animation, AR

About the Edition:  
This sculpture has been minted on the Ethereum Blockchain under the personal contract of Auriea Harvey. 
1 edition available for sale as NFT only.  
1 edition to be sold in combine with the physical sculpture (contact the artist for more information.)  
1 artist edition, vaulted by the artist.

mother/child v1 #3/3

Once thought to be authentic depictions of Fauna-Ram, normally unseen outside of ancient triumvirate groupings, recent scholarship has uncovered this to be a forgery. It is not known when these forgeries were made but they were unearthed atop what is believed to have been a workshop. It is thought that the craftsman were either capitalizing on myths surrounding Ram and Fauna by creating this hybrid, or perhaps there was a genuine sculpture after which these were copied. They are hand decorated and each is different, as can be seen by the layers of materials and imperfections. Paired with decorative bases, which were clearly made in the modern era to appeal to Victorian tastes, the Fauna-Ram forgeries are curiosities which raise more questions than answers about the importance these figures must hold for collectors both ancient and contemporary.

Fauna-Ram (forgery) v2-dv3

The Mystery v5-dv2 (chroma screen) Collection are moments from an animated digital sculpture by Auriea Harvey. She selects deeply aesthetic stills and loops which are semi-abstracts and rhythms which show the sculpture’s true expression. Each piece of the collection is a meditation on violent hypnotic color, where a face, a skull, flowers, braids, move in and out of recognition.

MYSTCS 19

This small Cyclops, made of Egyptian faience, is believed to unlock a treasure. Researchers currently investigate the possibility because it was found alongside a map and a key. 

In 2019, Ten Cyclops sketches of this type appeared, made of simple plaster. What is presented here is the first made of precious material.

Larger Cyclops figures are also well known and are in collections worldwide.

Auriea Harvey, 2023

Sketch for a Cyclops (faience)

The Mystery v5-dv2 (chroma screen) Collection are moments from an animated digital sculpture by Auriea Harvey. She selects deeply aesthetic stills and loops which are semi-abstracts and rhythms which show the sculpture’s true expression. Each piece of the collection is a meditation on violent hypnotic color, where a face, a skull, flowers, braids, move in and out of recognition.

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MYSTCS 16

Auriea Harvey’s The Mystery v5-dv2 (chroma) is a digital sculpture that serves as a talisman and a memento mori, a still-life from Western art history that is a reminder of both beauty and death. Discrete images within the work invite symbolic interpretation, for example, a skull (bone) or a rose (beauty). The composite image of the sculpture rotates across a chromatic landscape in a timeless manner, as if it is waiting to be activated. Harvey’s practice invites elements of self-portraiture, thereby inserting the face of an African-American woman into art historical narratives. This process creates new allegories of figuration, addressing sculpture in both a digital and social connotation.

Collector receives the full interactive artwork with 3D, video, stills and AR. To view the full piece go to:
https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmVLJRWERzreU8vJSHU4UTcDzsTqx8jf6B1n9Bezpcah4A/AHarvey-TheMysteryV05-2021-dv02/AHarvey-TheMysteryV05-2021-dv02.html


The Mystery v5-dv2 (chroma)

MYSTCS 5

The Mystery v5 chroma screen

Auriea Harvey 
Leviathan v1-dv1, 2018 
GLB model, AR Dimensions variable (portrait or landscape orientation) 
Unique

This is the first digital version of the legs of Leviathan. He is envisionsed as walking yet static, trapped in volcanic rock.

Leviathan v1-dv1

Auriea Harvey
The Mystery v4-dv1, 2021
GLB model, AR
Dimensions variable (portrait or landscape orientation)
Unique

The Mystery v4-dv1is part of a series of AR digital versions and 3D printed physical sculptures. The Mystery is based in the tradition of the Vanitas, objects which symbolize human life, beauty, and death. This version is made of brown granite, brown skin, pink porcelain, and gold leaf.

The Mystery v4-dv1

Foundation

Auriea Harvey’s The Mystery v5-dv2 (chroma) is a digital sculpture that serves as a talisman and a memento mori, a reminder of both beauty and death. Discrete images within the work invite symbolic interpretation, for example, a skull (bone) or a rose (beauty). The sculpture rotates across an intense chromatic landscape in a timeless manner, as if it is waiting to be activated. Harvey’s practice involves elements of self-portraiture, inserting the face of an African-American woman into art historical narratives. This process creates new allegories of figuration, addressing sculpture in both a digital and social connotation. Collector receives the interactive artwork on IPFS with 3D model, HD video, high-resolution stills and AR. To view the full interactive work, scan the QRcode in the minted video or IPFS CID: QmT89cFLQRyyYRW6GoPGCRMY8UeSN3DLpYr87wBGGL5B6J

SuperRare

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The world we see with our eyes is just a reflection of a reality that we cannot quite grasp.

Angel

MESSENGER is part of an ongoing series of digital sculptures created from the worlds and mythologies Auriea Harvey alters. She remixes art history and autobiography and thinks about the connection between heaven and earth.

Messenger v1-dv1

Auriea VLHS

Fauna-Ram (forgery) v2-dv2

Fauna-Ram by Auriea Harvey

The Mystery v5-dv2 (chroma stack), 2021  
GLB model in html environment  
Dimensions variable (portrait orientation)

Through a diverse mixed-media practice, Auriea Harvey creates sculpture in dialog with artefact. The artist brings personal narratives and character development to her sculptures by making 3D scans from life. These scans mutate as they are re-sculpted and combined with others from her extensive library: models based on her own clay sculptures, works of imagination digitally sculpted, and scanned fragments encountered in museums. The Mystery version 5 is in a series of sculptural explorations on the subject of mortality. Drawing from the tradition of Memento Mori, a theme popular in Baroque painting and sculpture. A skull, a face, a rose, a braid. Bone, nature, beauty, life, death. The Mystery v5-dv2 (chroma stack) is a swirling, psychedelic totem nested within a custom HTML environment. Its looping, hypnotic meditation of infinite duration with motion ticking away time and unsettling color notes invites reflection on these mysteries.

The Mystery v5-dv2 (chroma stack)

The Mystery

Objects carefully unearthed, restored, and displayed.

Vitrine 23

Auriea Harvey’s practice exists in and between the real and virtual and *The Unanswered Question* situates both realms of existence on the same plane not as simulacrum, but as a suspension of disbelief. Scale plays an important role within the collapse of real and virtual as the artist manifests her digital compositions as an expansive scrollable landscape. Each work is a collage of polygonal models, derived from 3D scans and arranged into scenes using “kitbashing”, a technique from the practice of model-making that forms all parts into a whole and celebrates the simple lighting and highlights of each figure’s digital nature. This process offers the artist the opportunity to interject her personal sculptures into classical narratives.

Layered amongst *The Sacrifice* are scans of the outside walls of Rome’s Ara Pacis Augustae and a sacrificial bull from the Parthenon marbles alongside her digital sculptures *Minomirror (canceled)* and *The Mystery v3*.


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