This “stump-heart” thus takes on its full symbolic weight, no longer just as an organ, but as a missing nucleus, an isolated source, a matrix external to this vegetal and living body.

Here, the clay envelope transforms into mineral surfaces, invaded by vegetal matter and mysterious outgrowths, like signs of life carving their path.

Isolated from the rest of the body, this heart then becomes an autonomous entity, both vulnerable and resilient.

An accidental flaw runs across its surface, like the memory of an inner tension.

A fracture, almost emotional, that whispers to us the impermanence of things.

Hand-modeled ceramic