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 body — the medical archive from Galen through Vesalius’s Fabrica (1543), and the Romanian tradition of writing icons on glass that ended with my great-grandfather, Clopotarul (the Bellringer), in the village of Nicula, Transylvania.

The Work four ways in
Cor Fabrica — mirror-polished stainless steel sculpture by C Fodoreanu, anatomical figure rising against a sunset desert sky.
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 Archangels Michael and Gabriel by C Fodoreanu — large painting of two haloed angels in orange robes among stylized roses, installed on a white gallery wall with a fallen log and a hanging rope at right, from the writings exhibition at level of service not required.
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 dive #1, from blues — figure descending into deep blue water, legs vertical above the surface.
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 lorem ipsum — two hand-applied cement torsos joined at the shoulders by a barked tree branch, set on a cement-covered pedestal.
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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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