Echoes of Glory
Commission: Private commission
Subject: A sculptural portrait developed through a structured Visual Taste Test interview, exploring how an equestrian life shapes perception, discipline, and identity.
Most important take aways: Bronze as structural memory. Not symbolic infinity, but endurance through construction. Permanence articulated through tension, balance, and light.
Result: A welded geometric bronze wireframe forms an open head structure in which the construction method remains fully visible. Light penetrates the framework, casting shadows that extend the form beyond its physical boundaries. Engineered through technical drawings and precision welding, the structure holds eight translucent image fragments—selected not as literal milestones, but as distilled sensorial anchors from her equestrian world.
The work negotiates weight and fragility: rigid bronze lines carry tensile force, while translucent elements shift with light and viewpoint. As illumination passes through the structure, fragments appear and dissolve, turning memory into a spatial condition rather than a nostalgic image.
What seems linear becomes dimensional; what seems permanent is activated by light.
Material: Welded bronze, translucent fine art print slides
Measurements: 75 × 63 × 26 cm
