'Eternal Flame'Concept of Memorial
The composition 'Eternal Flame' is a modern and symbolic work, concerning the tragic subject of the Second World War, and all of the lives and fates broken by those events. It is a flame of sacrifice, suffering, and the struggle of the soul, a light of the nation and a memory of its people, the intellectual elite, those subjected to decimation. But despite all of the tragedy, nothing could put out the light of the people or uproot their true values.
Each epoch needs new artistic solutions relevant to its time, culture, preserving tradition and aesthetics of form, filling it with new meaning and understanding. The sculpture "Eternal Fire" is a modern solution to the tragic topic where the bodies and souls of people are exposed in the fusion with the nature of the fire they create, in which they fight, achieve victory by illuminating the world and sacrificing themselves.
Nelson Afian sculptor
