Cor Fabrica, mirror-polished stainless steel sculpture by C Fodoreanu, photographed from below against blue sky and scattered cumulus; the figure's torso and outstretched arm with wing-like ginkgo-leaf cuts read as silver-edged anatomical line-drawing dissolving into the sky.

A pediatrician making icons of the body.

Two traditions of looking at the human form — the medical archive that begins with Vesalius, and the closed Romanian tradition of writing icons that ended with my great-grandfather, the last in his lineage in the village of Nicula, Transylvania.

The Work four ways in
Cor Fabrica
fabrica
one
 Archangels Michael and Gabriel, from writings — two haloed angels in orange robes with purple wings, surrounded by stylized white roses.
writings
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 dive #1, from blues
sacalaia
three
 lorem ipsum — two hand-applied cement torsos joined at the shoulders by a barked tree branch, set on a cement-covered pedestal in a gallery, LOS/NR 2025.
rooms
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Collected by the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the Museum of Photographic Arts, Harvey Milk Photo Center, and Printed Matter.
Writing by Andrew Berardini, Shana Nys Dambrot, Seph Rodney, Peter Frank, Andrew Woolbright, and others, in Hyperallergic, Whitehot, HereIn, and The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Cor Fabrica donated to the Hillcrest Community Foundation, stored near the Pride Promenade in San Diego, awaiting installation and unveiling.
Art Director, level of service not required (LOS/NR), La Jolla — sixteen exhibitions in less than two years.
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