Something kind of like self expression, or more simply, just a matter of taste.

 

islandofthelosttoys:

Gormley describes his work as“an attempt to materialise the place at the other side of appearance where we all live.” Many of his works are based on moulds taken from his own body, or “the closest experience of matter that I will ever have and the only part of the material world that I live inside.”

Quantum Potentiality of the Manifested Self - Antony Gromley

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