{"product_id":"madinna-and-helen-heaven-pair-of-carved-pine-sculptures","title":"\"Madinna\" and \"Helen Heaven\", Pair of Carved Pine Sculptures","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe pine is laminated in radiating segments, the way a wheelwright builds a wheel or a pattern maker builds a form, so that a disc this size cannot cup or split across the grain. That decision gets made before any carving starts. The nose on the bust is turned on a lathe. The eyes are perforated sheet metal, cut and inlaid. The name plates are aluminium, punched letter by letter by hand and riveted down. Four trades, none of them laboured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth plates read MADINNA, the same six letters on each piece, which makes it a name rather than a title for either. One letter from Madonna. The bust is a crowned woman, and a crown on a woman is Marian before it is anything else. What the maker meant by it we cannot tell you. The larger piece carries a second plate reading HELEN HEAVEN, and the only Helen Heaven we can find anywhere is a performer credited in a Los Angeles punk film of 1986, in a cast full of people who had renamed themselves. Whether that is this one we have no way of knowing. Beside the two plates sit a red crayon number, a masking-tape remnant and a pencil inscription down the centre seam, three separate systems of numbering. Nothing else about the maker survives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kill or be Killed kobk.online","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67783321649474,"sku":"KOBK.26.ART.032","price":950.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/9271\/8658\/files\/15440876405058.png?v=1792271317","url":"https:\/\/bazaa.com.au\/products\/madinna-and-helen-heaven-pair-of-carved-pine-sculptures","provider":"Bazaa","version":"1.0","type":"link"}