SCULPTURAL WORKS
Bolivar: Metabolic Talisman Multimedia and clay 40 x 30 x 20 cm, 7 kg
Fed layer by layer with clay, fruit skins, leaves, spices, metals, and wine, Bolivar emerges as a body rather than an object. Each ingredient is not decoration but nourishment, absorbed into a dense skin that remembers growth and decay. Called a metabolic talisman, the work transforms matter into presence: a creature that carries both the weight of earth and the spark of becoming.
Full Moon: Metabolic Talisman Multimedia and clay 20 x 20 x 20 cm, 3 kg
Full Moon began as a painting layered with color fields, and rose petals—an ephemeral arrangement of beauty and impermanence. The work then passed through a series of transformations: wrapped into a bundle, sealed with clay infused with herbs, plants, and spices, and embedded with symbolic elements that expand its meaning. Incorporating coins (value), circuits (thought), herbs (medicine), and clay (earth) adds layers of significance: technology meets ritual, commerce meets nature. The surface was then carved with asemic writing—an invented script that resists direct translation yet carries symbolic weight, suggesting invocation, secrecy, and memory. The result is a hybrid form that hovers between painting, sculpture, and relic: a talismanic object that feels both contemporary and timeless. Like the full moon itself, the piece embodies a moment of culmination and fullness, enclosing its hidden layers in silence and offering presence rather than explanation.
Tempranillo Reserva Cariñena 2015
Metabolic Wine Vessels begins with an industrial bottle of red wine — an object of routine pleasure and circulation. Through successive layers of clay, pigments, plant matter, metals, and fragments of technology, the bottle is reconfigured into a site of material accumulation. Embedded objects such as spices, circuits, coins, and stopped watches form a stratified skin that records gestures, decisions, and time. The process is metabolic: each added element is absorbed into the vessel’s evolving body rather than placed upon it. The bottle becomes a system that processes cultural residue —organic, digital, economic—transforming a disposable object into a dense, self-contained relic. Neither representation nor decoration, these vessels occupy a space between artifact and organism. They echo additive traditions of charged objects while remaining firmly situated in contemporary material culture. What emerges is a question: how does an ordinary object shift when it begins to metabolize the world around it? The vessels stand as condensed material histories, accumulating their meaning through layers rather than symbols, offering presence instead of narrative.
METABOLIC WINE VESSELS
Cabernet Sauvignon Grenache 2018
Ramon Lopez Murillo Rioja 2015
Vino Nobile di Montepulciano 2015
