Generative Depth
Earth, memory and transformation. Faces emerge from conical forms, holding a moment of metamorphosis.
Moments past and future.
Every earth is a mixture of traces of the past, of silt and of lives. My research begins with the relationship between this material and the shaping of the individual: how colour, touch and experience help to form us.
Sculpture and ceramics take shape through primal, instinctive and gestural perceptions. Colours and surfaces evoke what people and experiences leave upon us: they tint us, change us and build layers upon our identity. Sometimes they mark us; at other times they leave us exposed, opening a space for dialogue with ourselves.
We are constantly changing, reaching and stretching towards something: towards others, upwards. Forms emerge from the earth through will, through necessity, or simply because it happens. It is within this tension that I seek the moment of metamorphosis: holding in matter a movement that is still unfolding.
The faces bring together people I have known, lived alongside or have yet to meet. They weave a past still taking shape with the possibilities of the future. What matters is the transformation they contain: the sculptural gesture follows its traces, making visible a story with neither beginning nor end.
Generative depth.
Bringing to light what the earth holds, embracing its transformations and making them tangible. Layers, grooves and traces of the past become a meeting point between the landscape and the individual. This opens a line of research into local clays and their possible use in sculpture.
