Artist Statement: “Earth and Stars”

My work explores the dialogue between permanence and impermanence, structure and fragmentation, the seen and the unseen. The Earth and Stars series embodies this duality—sculptures that stand as monolithic, rusted forms by day, blending with the landscape like ancient geological relics, only to transform at night, revealing a luminous web of fractures that evoke the constellations above.

Crafted from cor-ten steel, these non-rectangular parallelepipeds take on the patina of time, embracing weathering as an integral part of their aesthetic and conceptual essence. The cracked patterns that define their surfaces suggest natural processes—earthquakes, erosion, the breaking-apart and coming-together of matter. Yet, within those fractures lies an unexpected revelation: light. As darkness falls, the sculptures become celestial bodies, their glowing fissures mapping an unseen geometry that connects the solidity of the terrestrial with the vastness of the cosmos.

These works invite reflection on the interconnectedness of our world—the way the ground beneath us and the sky above are bound by the same fundamental forces. They are meditations on resilience and transformation, reminding us that even in breaking, there is beauty, and within decay, there is light.