# Raw-Mantic Obelisk

> Functional design bridging antiquity and natural patterns

**Published by:** [balloccart93](https://paragraph.com/@albertoballocca/)
**Published on:** 2026-03-26
**Categories:** albertoballocca, artist, sculptures, rawmantic, knowledge, design, interiorperception
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@albertoballocca/raw-mantic-obelisk

## Content

We have to pass through the ark of knowledge to find our inner-most sense of self and this sense, or perception, is somehow related to natural aesthetics. An example of symbolic sublimation is expressed with the Sema-tauy symbol (or sma-taui, or sema knot), an ancient Egyptian symbol composed of the intertwining of two plants, that, as two sparks, link our perception to a univocal sign representing two engraved plants to deduce, by diluting, trachea and arteries images onto one element. As every hieroglyph carries both performed signs and intellectual concepts, simultaneously, we have to decorate ourselves with leaves instead of diamonds, because nature, as culture, is a mademoiselle bedazzled with gemsleaves, and manifests a basic concept of compositional elements isolation, according to which Natural dimension is not something that can be defined by just a cultural approach without noticing how this approach is something that defines everything else."Raw-Mantic Obelisk", Mixedmedia. Plaster//Clay Compound - courtesy of Alberto Ballocca © Studio View, 2026A compendium of impulses through the fonetic similitude and graphical assonance between words 'socialies' and 'socialize' evidences an important clue of peculiar linguistic mechanism that comes from the island where every new pun is coming to life, a world that excludes sterile robotic techniques impositions, but becomes a generating part of it, matrix of intelligence manifesting meanings as spiritual thrusts.My creative approach is a medium between real life and studio decomposition. I tend to explore this kind of membrane that divides my inner perceptions from the outside world sight. My technique is diachronic and cyclical, I tend to apply unconventional mediums usages and approaches when I'm at work aim to generate something unexpected always linked and following my archetype; initial idea and sense of self both on figurative and abstract approaches. I'm passionate about ancient cultures, wild natural environments and their connection within my physique, and installing materials brings the most powerful and succesfull sublimation onto this process. - www.albertoballocca.com - SculpturesArtwork, text and edit by Alberto Ballocca, contemporary artist based in Italy, Torino.

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