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Sculpture: The Pearl-Fisher's Dream

In a series of stone cabinets he has shown the fruit of his soul's archeology by placing a number of embryonic human heads on the fragile shelves of memory. These effeminated, introverted and in Brancusian spirit briefly chiselled head shapes, appear in various works of Widenfalk. Most prominently so when they are found lying in the tower-like chairs which crown his many elevated landscapes. In these monolithic sculptures there are clear references to the customs and architecture of Mesopotamian and Egyptian cultures. But the throne chairs at the top of Temple Ziggurate don't seem to have been used to lead one's thoughts to the religious practices of the old gods.
It is rather in order to bring the observer's attention to a mythological world universally applicable, which orbits the mysteries of life, that Widenfalk's dreaming figures are placed in such charged ritual surroundings. And even this - broken and unfinished sides included- more processually expressed symbolism of life is a typical element in his depiction of humanity. In the granite sculpture "The Pearl-Fisher's Dream" he lets a horizontal boat shape break. The movement which strives sky-wards to underline the expression of mental movement in the closed, archaic face. The title alludes to an atmospheric world which he himself has experienced through taking inspiration from a poem which his father wrote and often recited to him during his childhood.

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