Gravitational Maps I-III (2025)
Series of three sculptures
Tree trunk gifted from a friend to the artist, plum tree resin collected in the garden of the artist’s grandmother in France.
Dimensions: 12” x 11 1/2” x 3”
Gravitational Map II
Gravitational Map II, detail shot
Gravitational Map II, detail shot
Gravitational Map II, detail shot
This work is part of an ongoing research project called The Cosmology of a Flower. It engages with the idea that flowers are earthly reflections of celestial bodies. Inspired by the book The Life of Plants, from philosopher Emanuele Coccia, this project explores the visual and conceptual resemblance of flowers and stars, echoing their singular relationship, one mediated by light. This works acts as an imaginary and abstract map to the night sky, where shining bodies are circling around the center of a tree. The ripples and waves are sculpted in the wood using a CNC machine. Each tree slice is its own small cosmos of orbiting bodies and trajectory lines.
Gravitational Map III
Gravitational Map III, detail shot
Gravitational Map III
Gravitational Map III
Gravitational Map I
Gravitational Map I
Gravitational Map I, detail shot
Installation view