Artwork description: Glass roses emerge from reclaimed bricks, exploring the tension between permanence and decay, memory and loss, reflecting on our enduring desire to preserve what cannot be held.
Artwork description long: Twenty five glass roses emerge from reclaimed bricks arranged in a linear procession, forming a horizontal sequence reminiscent of both a garden and an archaeological site. Each brick acts as a modest pedestal, carrying a flower that is at once delicate and enduring. The installation brings together two materials that embody different temporalities: brick, bearing the marks of time, use and memory, and glass, whose transparency evokes both fragility and the modern aspiration toward permanence, purity and the erasure of traces. Drawing inspiration from the parables of Matthew 13, the installation reflects on the passage of time, on what is cultivated and what endures, and on the fragile hope that beauty might outlast the conditions from which it emerges. The roses appear as gestures against disappearance. Like monuments reduced to their essentials, they inhabit the tension between preservation and decay, memory and loss. Attempts at Permanence considers permanence not as a condition to be achieved, but more stands as a quiet memorial to the desire of preserving what time inevitably transforms : what can be remembered, but never fully held.
Artwork description long: Twenty five glass roses emerge from reclaimed bricks arranged in a linear procession, forming a horizontal sequence reminiscent of both a garden and an archaeological site. Each brick acts as a modest pedestal, carrying a flower that is at once delicate and enduring. The installation brings together two materials that embody different temporalities: brick, bearing the marks of time, use and memory, and glass, whose transparency evokes both fragility and the modern aspiration toward permanence, purity and the erasure of traces. Drawing inspiration from the parables of Matthew 13, the installation reflects on the passage of time, on what is cultivated and what endures, and on the fragile hope that beauty might outlast the conditions from which it emerges. The roses appear as gestures against disappearance. Like monuments reduced to their essentials, they inhabit the tension between preservation and decay, memory and loss. Attempts at Permanence considers permanence not as a condition to be achieved, but more stands as a quiet memorial to the desire of preserving what time inevitably transforms : what can be remembered, but never fully held.