Sculpture in gypsum, stone and powdered gold leaf.
100 x 30 x 45 cm
2015
There's something quiet revealing in the gold, some silenced secret and whispering nature. When you have it on your hand it gives you some kind of calling, like if a mermaid would be talking to you and that calling is telling you to jump the abyss . It makes you think about the sun... then about the heat that warms you every day, about its power. It makes you think about the mountain, about tectonic plates, about pressure... and suddenly you understand its enchanting force.
I wanted to relate white and simple gypsum, with leaf gold and some stones I found on my walks trough the mountain near home. This piece started being a huge sculpture that I decided to destroy, as the man destroys a mountain for a grain of gold, and I ended up choosing the most beautiful peaces of that destruction. Certainly scale and proportion, choosing and leaving, destruction and reconstruction were the crack that pierced the golden stone.