Strange Mermaid... - 2022
White Carrara Marble and Absolute black granite (sculpture and base carved in abandoned tombstones)
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The writing process is always complex. However, it is intrinsically linked to the way I sculpt. I would even say that it’s the first step of it, as it will help me refining the emotion I am diving into.
In this sculpture I worked vertically, and this marks a difference with my other sculptures. It’s both full of sensitivity and sensuality, of fragility and strength mixed together. The curves are so tense that they seem to be wet. The sculpture emerge from a destructured base that seems to open up, to tear itself apart following the patterns of a drought cracked soil.
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The writing process is always complex. However, it is intrinsically linked to the way I sculpt. I would even say that it’s the first step of it, as it will help me refining the emotion I am diving into.
In this sculpture I worked vertically, and this marks a difference with my other sculptures. It’s both full of sensitivity and sensuality, of fragility and strength mixed together. The curves are so tense that they seem to be wet. The sculpture emerge from a destructured base that seems to open up, to tear itself apart following the patterns of a drought cracked soil.
And through this tear, my half-woman half-stone mermaid emerge. The lacking head can be compared to a nascent plant. From the moment a seed begins to germinate, scientists says it has only 48 hours to survive and become a plant before exhausting its internal reserves. Isn’t this somohow similar to how the latest IPCC report urges us to act in the next 3 years.
Slowly the marble comes alive, the torso gets longer, the back arches. The forms seem stretched to the point of tearing... in a desperate impulse, almost a plea to the beholder.
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