Debora Alanna works in many media. This is a selection of her hand carved stone sculpture produced between 2013 - 2014. Her work develops ideas about archetypes and folklore.

1. Debora Alanna
Stone Carving
2014 - 2016

2. Stone carving has been part of
my art practice since my art
school days.
I studied stone carving with
Leonard Osterle at the Ontario
College of Art.
The use of stone as a medium
has been intermittent over
the years.
I have consistently returned to
its use because carving is a
practice that gives me much
joy.
I consider it a meditative
endeavour.
Debora Alanna 1976

3. Work in this presentation concentrates on my stone sculpture
made between 2014 – 2016.
During this time I also drew, painted and made installations.

4. Moving to Victoria in 2014 into the Cook Street Village neighbourhood
meant working in an pleasant urban and well treed setting – a gentle segue from the
previous depths of nature that I inhabited for the past four years.
This urbanity did not affect the subject of my stone work.
I continued to produce archetypal , mythic, symbolic sculpture.
Its charisma and abundance of airy verdure combined with congenial people in my midst
allowed an agreeable work environment.

6. Anima
by Debora Alanna
Hand carved alabaster
10 x 12 x 9”
- Front view
Anima expounds on human
intricacy, animalistic behaviour,
how personalities
are ancient composites that
may resemble animal traits.
Animal characteristics are
emergent.

7. Anima by Debora Alanna
‘Anima’ has many references.
Greeks thought it was a person’s
psyche.
Aristotle called the soul, anima.
Carl Jung referred to the anima as the
unconscious or genuine internal nature
of an person.
Anima encompasses all of these
suggestions.
- top view

8. Anima
by Debora Alanna
I had been thinking
about the concept of
‘anima’ for several
years.
Anima, the pastel
drawing (8 x 11”)
was made in 2011.

9. – work in progress – front view

10. Anima by Debora Alanna – details

11. Anima – front view Anima – side view

14. Ramification(s)
by Debora Alanna
Hand carved alabaster
12 x 14 x 10”
Ramification(s) acknowledges
the complicating extensions or
outgrowths that delineate,
define a situation, a person’s
thought process.
This sculpture is that process
characterised in a ram’s head.
The process of extending or subdividing
comes from Medieval Latin:
rāmificāre < Latin rām(us) branch].

15. Ramification(s)
Each side of Ramification(s)
has a different treatment.
The right side eye is a spiral, a
labyrinth of insight.
The surrounding horn arches
and curls to respond to the
acumen of the inward whorl.
– right side

16. Ramification(s)
The left side of the sculpture presents a
bloom unfolding.
Efflorescence is the thought process. Its
horn curls around the outward gaze as a
protector during this extroversion.
– left side

17. Ramification(s) - in progress

18. - front view
- detail

20. Debora Alanna is a
visual artist currently
located in
Montreal Quebec.
All art work,
photographs, writing
and design are
produced by
Debora Alanna.
© Debora Alanna 2016

21. Thank you!
Thank you for taking the time to view this
presentation of my stone sculpture
produced 2014 – 2016.
Debora Alanna
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