This life-sized sculpture, made of wire, carries within it layers of visual and symbolic meaning. On its head is a collage of an elderly woman—her face drawn from a Rembrandt painting—symbolizing a noble and profound mind now forgotten. On its chest, a paper collage of a younger woman, the Virgin Mary, brings forth associations of sanctity, youth, and spiritual endurance.
The sculpture’s body is pierced in places where wires jut out, evoking pain and hardship. The feet are marked with red glue—part wound, part healing—a blood-colored adhesive that speaks of suffering and the fragile process of mending. The use of wire creates a raw, skeletal structure, suggesting vulnerability and exposure. The contrasts—between the aged and the young, the divine and the wounded, memory and presence—form the essence of this piece.
It is a meditation on womanhood across time, religious burden, and the invisible weight women carry. Set within nature, this sculpture becomes a silent prayer, merging decay with divinity, and pain with resilience.
