Prayer

A conversation of Philothea’s soul with the Absolute. This process lasts in silence and peace, shrouded with the mist of thoughts coming at the time of opening the interior and looking into the negative of one’s own body and its desires. It is a question of forgetting the shape and losing oneself to listen to the Creator’s language.

I try to show the transfiguration of carnality in search of air, lightness of heart and an attitude of humility. I capture the perpetuation of the clay figure at the moment the plaster moulds are removed, and I recall similar unfinished conversations with the model. Held by two persons with opposite views, our discussions are a jointly travelled route, and the sculpture and sketches are fruits of the meeting of these opposites.

The minor degree is created by four pictures of landscapes. They represent my perception of Far Eastern cities and their surroundings – the place where our civilisation began.