TORSO

Porcelain, wood firing, 12x31.5in (30x80cm), 2026

Fire completed the image I had envisioned from the very beginning. Yet I could

never have imagined that the firing would transform the very nature of these works

so profoundly.

Before the firing, they were almost classical fragments of the female body -

smooth, fragile, vulnerable.

Then the fire changed everything. The fractures gave them the presence of

archaeological relics, transforming them into artifacts - objects that bear witness

to tragedy and catastrophe. Flame and ash erased their connection to the present.

They no longer belong to our time. Instead, they feel like fragments of memory,

unearthed from the archaeological strata after the end of a civilization.

And then there is one detail I could never have foreseen. The ash never touched

the abdomen - the place where life begins. It remained luminous, as though the

fire had deliberately passed it by, sparing the one place where new life is

conceived.

That glowing warm orange mark is the final proof that life survives. Even after the

end of a world.