emptying the inside with a spoon

hear not my steps which way they go

This work emerges from Nostalgia - a longing for the homeland, the place where one was born and grew up, the culture one is connected to.

It is a reminder of something already known and an unearthing of something previously unknown. It reawakens a bond with the past, with its values and spirituality. The bread palette, used for making bread in the family, serves as a bridge to my personal past. It is a tool that lost its function but stands as a reminder of what brought family together. It was nourishment, the making and breaking of bread that bound people together, that bound man to nature and God.

These values, once re-embraced, bring new meaning and light into the present. The bread palette becomes the symbol for the grain of wheat that falls on the earth, dies and brings forth fruit.

wood, forged steel, found object
78 1/2 x 22 1/2 x 54 inches
2017

then as now

plexi glass, wood, stainless steel, found object
33 x 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
2017-2018

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'noi suntem seminţele şi ne pregătim

din noi înşine să ne azvîrlim în altceva

cu mult mai înalt,...

a fi sămînţă şi a te sprijini

de propriul tau pămînt.' (n. stănescu)

steel, stainless steel, wood

10 1/2 x 8 x 13 1/2 inches

2017

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plaster, steel, cardboard
8 x 8 x 11
2017

surely not I

found object, forged steel, pewter, plexiglass
39 x 7 x 6 3/4 inches
2017

with reference

paper, sculptamold, canvas, acrylic
25 1/2 x 26 x 30 inches
2017

so mundane

aluminum, tree bark
8 x 6 1/2 x 6 inches
2017

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steel, wood, plaster, cardboard
14 x 4 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches
2017

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"i would like to live
like a river flows,
carried by the surprise
of its own unfolding." (j. o'donohue)
paper, sculptamold, forged steel
13 x 4 x7 inches
2017

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cardboard, steel, wood, found object
10 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 4
2017

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'It's finished! someone said over him. He heard those words and repeated them in his soul. Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more.' (L. Tolstoy)
'I live my life in widening circles... I circle around God, around the primordial tower.' (R. M. Rilke)
tree branch, graphite, wire
12 x 13 inches
2017

stranger and guest

wood, steel, tree root
12 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches
2017

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found object, lead, cotton
48 x 12 x 8 inches
2017

monoprint

11 x 8 inches

2020

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stainless steel, forged steel, wire
23 x 7 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2017

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steel, marble, lead, chalk, wood, oil pastel
36 x 20 x 9 1/2 inches
2016

123

plaster, stainless steel, steel
37 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches
2016

no matter what

books, cement, stainless steel, oil paint
20 x 20 x 21 inches
2016

so we shall be

steel
7 x 6 x 7 1/2 inches
2016

strange fruit

strange fruit

steel, stainless steel, wood, stone, rope
21 x 19 x 11 inches
2016

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books, stainless steel
8 1/4 x 4 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches
2015

end of journey

wood, lead, stainless steel
14 x 10 x 6 inches
2015

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ebony, lead, stainless steel
5 x 8 x 9 inches
2015

free of the shoes

cement, wood, forged steel, rope, resin, oil paint
116 x 17 1/2 x 20 inches
2015

newcomer

terracotta
7 x 9 x 6 inches
2016

all desire

walnut, stainless steel, stone, oil paint
20 x 9 x 4 inches
2015

wild bouquet of evidence

'If they have no aroma, perfumes shall we pour, and burn the incenses of sentiment before them.' (C. P. Cavafy)
granite, stainless steel, lead
15 x 8 x 7 inches
2015