This work focuses on memory, archiving, and the value of words in preserving and transmitting fragments of personal and collective histories.
Just as in prehistory, signs represented the graphic materialization of concepts, ideas, emotions, knowledge, and perceptions of the material and supernatural worlds—graphical syntheses of human stories, heroes, myths, and gods, laden with meanings that often escape us as they are linguistic expressions of cultures far removed from our own and whose interpretive codes we no longer understand—so today, my casts preserve and protect fragments of personal and collective histories. These fragments lose their original meaning and transform into signs.
Each clay cast represents a tangible and enduring recording.
These words are hand-forged and, through the act of imprinting into the clay, are retrieved from the realm of memory to be preserved in an archive.
Clay, with its plasticity and ability to immortalize impressions, becomes the perfect medium for capturing and preserving these words imbued with meaning.
My work contributes to the creation of a living archive—a repository of memories and stories that can continue to engage with the present and future generations.
