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Anatomy of Velocity
A triple-volume architectural space swallows conventional objects. Suspended from above, Anatomy of Velocity does not decorate an interior; it resizes it. The ceiling becomes surface light, the floor becomes depth, and the expansive void is gathered into an immutable focal anchor.
The Specimen — Detail
Two unique editions — Bone (shaded vertebra by vertebra) and Black (monochrome resin, grounded in steel).
Specification
- Artist
- Ché Hough (b. Cape Town)
- Studio
- Cape Cache, Pearly Beach
- Medium
- Water-based mineral resin
- Method
- Every vertebra, rib, and tooth shaped by hand
- Rigging
- Dyneema® SK99 or structural steel arch
- Scale
- ≈ 2700 × 600 × 900 mm
- Edition
- Two unique works (Bone and Black)
The Spatial Mirror
Every vertebra, rib, and tooth is sculpted entirely by hand in water-based mineral resin, following the natural thrust line from jaw to tail. Shaped rather than poured, the surface holds a quiet, living texture. At nearly three metres in length, it carries the profound architectural presence of a monumental skeleton without the physical mass of bronze or stone.
Hung in open light, the skeleton casts a secondary, moving artwork — a shadow that tracks the sun, keeping the measured rhythm of time within the room.
Colophon & Provenance
Ché Hough (born Fouché Hough) lives and works in Pearly Beach at the southern tip of Africa.
- Typology
- I · The Frame — The Specimens
- Field research
- 139,500 nautical miles at sea
- Executed
- 2024 — Pearly Beach Studio
- Materials
- Water-based mineral resin; hand-sculpted vertebrae, ribs, and teeth; Dyneema® SK99 rigging or structural steel arch
- Scale
- ≈ 2700 × 600 × 900 mm (≈ 106 × 24 × 35 in)
- Status
- Two unique works · One of a kind · Not for sale · Both placed in private collections
- Authentication
- Certificate of Authenticity issued by Cape Cache
Process — Vertebra by Vertebra
Dissecting Thunnus albacares to map the thrust line from jaw to tail.
Shaping every vertebra, rib, and tooth by hand in water-based mineral resin.
Articulating the skeleton bone by bone, following the natural geometry of velocity.
Bone shaded vertebra by vertebra; Black finished in monochrome resin.
Suspending on Dyneema® SK99 or grounding in a structural steel arch.
Anatomy of Velocity II
The snoek skeleton — the same taxonomic gaze, a different species, a different velocity. Capturing the stillness of a strike.
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