Busacca Gallery

Artist Kim Eric Lilot: "Entitled the 'Bi-Polar Ring' this design of hand-chased three dimensional sculptural faces depict a dramatic humorous spectrum of human emotions. Beginning with the central 'normal' portrait the faces on the left side gradually change their emotional moods from happiness into extreme euphoria. The faces on the right side depict the emotional shifts from sadness into rage. The faces merge at the ring's base into a series of grotesques or caricatures. Note the shared eyes. This technique of portraiture originated in ancient Asian religious iconography exemplified, for example, in Hindu and Buddhist sculptures in Angor Wat, Cambodia. This is a unique, limited edition ring (06/10). 18 karat yellow gold with Platinum borders and enameled eyes. The ring is a size 9 1/2 (American standard sizes) but can be adjusted without altering the seamless design."

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahma#Temples, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rama_and_Hanuman_figh

In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building.



The term originates from the French gargouille, originally "throat" or "gullet"; Latin gurgulio, gula, and similar words derived from the root gar, "to swallow", which represented the gurgling sound of water (e.g., Spanish garganta, "throat"; Spanish gárgola, "gargoyle").



A chimera, or a grotesque figure, is a sculpture that does not work as a waterspout and serves only an ornamental or artistic function. These are also usually called gargoyles in laypersons' terminology, although the field of architecture usually preserves the distinction between gargoyles (functional waterspouts) and non-waterspout grotesques.