The Triptych
A work in progress, in three parts. De Bruid (The Bride) was the first. Over the coming year I am making the other two: De Bruidegom (The Groom) and De Prediker (The Preacher). Together they are about marriage, and about the gap between marriage as a tradition, fixed and symbolic, and love as a feeling, which never holds still. Between those two stands whoever blesses the union.
Each sculpture has to stand on its own. Together they should say something none of them says alone, which means the distance between them, where they look and how they stand in relation to each other matter as much as the figures themselves.
2026
De Bruid The Bride
Finished. Shown at BIG ART in the Codrico factory, Rotterdam.
End 2026 · Spring 2027
De Bruidegom The Groom
Digital model finished by the end of 2026. Printing, assembly and finishing in spring 2027.
Spring · Summer 2027
De Prediker The Preacher
Modelling in spring, printing and finishing through the summer. Finished in black, with a transparent head, tested in clear PETG and in resin.
September 2027
The triptych, together
The first time all three are shown side by side. Venue to be announced.
Process
I update this page as the work develops: modelling, printing, finishing, and the tests for the transparent head. For the day-to-day, follow @sculptedshadows on Instagram.
De Bruid (The Bride), from skeleton to sculpture
Every sculpture starts as a digital figure. The pose is built on a skeleton in Unreal Engine, with a MetaHuman as the base, reshaped almost entirely; the head is sometimes posed live through a webcam rig. In ZBrush the figure, the dress and the hair are worked out, with the fabric first draped by simulation and then sculpted by hand. Only then is it cut into parts and printed.
