Cresta Nera

Black like a wet sail, the form climbs at an angle and ends in a jagged ridge — the spine of some geological animal, or a breaking wave caught the instant it snaps. Of the three works in the Laas series, Cresta Nera is the most theatrical, and the most tense in the way it sets mass against edge: a broad triangular face carries a serrated crest that pulls all the energy of the piece up into itself.

Black here isn't a colour, it's a condition. It swallows the light, keeps the form from giving itself up at a glance, and hands it back only as you move around it. The facets don't describe anything — they cut. The generated stone turns into a blade, and the heat-work sharpens the contrast between the smooth planes and the broken matter of the ridge.