--- title: "Kiss of Chytrid (Bronze) — Anamorphic Sculpture" description: "Growing up in South Africa, I developed a deep and lasting love of frogs. 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Jonty reveals hidden forces of reality through works that make perception shift. Everything is not as it seems.", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sentient.art/#org" } } ] }, { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "VisualArtwork", "name": "Kiss of Chytrid (Bronze)", "url": "https://sentient.art/edition/kiss-of-chytrid-bronze", "image": "https://fgxztnkqkimoutnckwrs.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/edition-images/edition-6442aaf1-9609-475a-aa24-09e79bf5735b-compressed-1779669539602.jpg", "inLanguage": "en", "dateCreated": "2015", "artMedium": "Bronze And Steel", "artworkSurface": "55w x 42h x 50d", "description": "Growing up in South Africa, I developed a deep and lasting love of frogs. My most vivid childhood memory is of a long day spent out by a small waterhole on a hot day interacting with frogs. They really and truly were gentle and friendly souls. I even discovered that they enjoy a gentle caress along the spine – I never tried kissing one though, but I suppose I can claim to have experienced some level of intimacy with a frog.As the years went by and adulthood took over, I somehow buried my frog feelings. It was when I produced the first frog sculpture that I came to understand my feelings. It was the small things – literally down to the extent to which I found I knew frog physiology on an intuitive level.So it began. Eight years and 20 or so frog sculptures later, I feel like I’m just starting this relationship.So here I present my latest frog portrait. I’ve called this work “Long day in Pretoria with Frog”.", "creator": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonty Hurwitz", "sameAs": "https://sentient.art/about" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dr. Yifat Davidoff", "sameAs": "https://sentient.art/about" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "sentient.art" } ], "isPartOf": { "@type": "CollectionPage", "name": "Edition of Originals" } } ] --- [ The Art of Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff ](/) [ The Art of Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff ](/) [](/ "Home") ![sentient.art](/sentient-art-icon.png)![sentient.art](/sentient-art-logo.png)![sentient.art](/sentient-art-logo-dark.png) # Kiss of Chytrid (Bronze) Edition Size:  9 Artist Copies:  4 Year:  2015 Dimensions:  55w x 42h x 50d (cm) Materials:  Bronze And Steel ![Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff, Kiss of Chytrid (Bronze), Bronze And Steel, 2015](https://fgxztnkqkimoutnckwrs.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/edition-images/edition-6442aaf1-9609-475a-aa24-09e79bf5735b-compressed-1779669539602.jpg?width=1600&quality=85&resize=contain) ## Related concepts - [Anamorphic Sculpture](/concepts/anamorphic-sculpture) - [Optical Illusion Sculpture](/concepts/optical-illusion-sculpture) - [Privileged Viewpoint](/concepts/privileged-viewpoint) - [Observer-Dependent Reality](/concepts/observer-dependent-reality) - [Optical Illusion](/concepts/optical-illusion) - [Anamorphosis](/concepts/anamorphosis) - [Mirror Anamorphosis](/concepts/mirror-anamorphosis) - [Mathematical Sculpture](/concepts/mathematical-sculpture) - [Anamorphic & Illusion Art Editions](/concepts/anamorphic-art-editions) ![Kiss of Chytrid (Bronze) — kiss\_of\_chytrid\_1.jpeg](https://fgxztnkqkimoutnckwrs.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/content-assets/6442aaf1-9609-475a-aa24-09e79bf5735b/1762442072458-0-kiss_of_chytrid_1-web.jpg?width=1024&quality=80&resize=contain) ![Kiss of Chytrid (Bronze) — kiss\_of\_chytrid\_6.jpeg](https://fgxztnkqkimoutnckwrs.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/content-assets/6442aaf1-9609-475a-aa24-09e79bf5735b/1762442074640-3-kiss_of_chytrid_6-web.jpg?width=1024&quality=80&resize=contain) ![Kiss of Chytrid (Bronze) — kiss\_of\_chytrid\_7.jpeg](https://fgxztnkqkimoutnckwrs.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/content-assets/6442aaf1-9609-475a-aa24-09e79bf5735b/1762442073361-1-kiss_of_chytrid_7-web.jpg?width=1024&quality=80&resize=contain) ![Kiss of Chytrid (Bronze) — kiss\_of\_chytrid\_5.jpeg](https://fgxztnkqkimoutnckwrs.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/content-assets/6442aaf1-9609-475a-aa24-09e79bf5735b/1762442075251-4-kiss_of_chytrid_5-web.jpg?width=1024&quality=80&resize=contain) ![Kiss of Chytrid (Bronze) — kiss\_of\_chytrid\_9.jpeg](https://fgxztnkqkimoutnckwrs.supabase.co/storage/v1/render/image/public/content-assets/6442aaf1-9609-475a-aa24-09e79bf5735b/1762442073989-2-kiss_of_chytrid_9-web.jpg?width=1024&quality=80&resize=contain) ![Kiss of Chytrid (Bronze) — Kiss of Chytrid (Bronze) - Kiss of Chytrid Extinction 2 Jonty Hurwitz.mp4](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MtdK6xC-Q8g/maxresdefault.jpg) ![Kiss of Chytrid (Bronze) — Kiss of Chytrid (Bronze) - Search Air IMG 6328.mov](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/geGzMX3UpDU/maxresdefault.jpg) Growing up in South Africa, I developed a deep and lasting love of frogs. My most vivid childhood memory is of a long day spent out by a small waterhole on a hot day interacting with frogs. They really and truly were gentle and friendly souls. I even discovered that they enjoy a gentle caress along the spine – I never tried kissing one though, but I suppose I can claim to have experienced some level of intimacy with a frog.As the years went by and adulthood took over, I somehow buried my frog feelings. It was when I produced the first frog sculpture that I came to understand my feelings. It was the small things – literally down to the extent to which I found I knew frog physiology on an intuitive level.So it began. Eight years and 20 or so frog sculptures later, I feel like I’m just starting this relationship.So here I present my latest frog portrait. I’ve called this work “Long day in Pretoria with Frog”. 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