"Tu aimeras ce que j’aime et ce qui m’aime: l’eau, les nuages, le silence, et la nuit; la mer immense et verte; l’eau informe et multiforme”
“You will love what I love and what loves me: water, clouds, silence, and the night; the sea vast and green; the formless and multiform waters”

An oxymoron: the making tangible of intangible matter. This is the mystery of glass, which is by nature neither solid nor liquid. It is like an imperceptibly slow flowing water, only apparently in durable form. Here this sense of permanent change is captured through a mingling of dark and light waters, nocturnal and diurnal, flowing together as one.
Candles are traditionally a symbol of hope and guidance, as well as mortality and the ephemeral nature of life. Held fast, they evoke the pervasive threads of impermanence woven through the fabric of existence, in the interplay between bronze - dripping as it continued the melting of the candles it hold, and the rock of glass, which shifts the narrative to become a beacon of solidity and resilience. The use of Aventurina or goldstone, a four-centuries-old Murano glass technique, alludes to the long association that exists between craft and alchemy: the arcane, elusive, and often unpredictable transmutation of matter into something transcendent.