Genesis – Olive Wood Sculpture

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The name ‘Genesis’ (birth, origin) turns a centuries-old natural object — an olive root — into a metaphor of the beginning of all beginnings. This sculpture is a dialogue between man, time and the elements. Visually the composition resists any single interpretation: endless flowing lines, through voids and natural fractures recall at once neural connections, a nascent cell or the outline of a mythical creature. In its interlacings one can discern the silhouette of a frozen dragon: where the curve of the jaws and eye sockets shows through, while in the lower part a tail can be guessed, receding into space. Yet the author does not impose this form — he merely frees it from the centuries-old captivity of the bark, letting images be born in the viewer’s mind.

This is an absolute triumph of the wabi-sabi aesthetic: before us is not a man-made ideal but the will of nature, which over 400 years of chaotic growth created a flawlessly asymmetric, surreal algorithm. A finish of natural oil and wax reveals the divine texture of the root — its winding growth rings and the rare ‘bird’s eye’ pattern glow with a warm, living light. Thin metal supports visually lift the heavy root off the ground, turning it into a weightless clot of energy hovering in a vacuum above a black mirror pedestal. The sculpture defies gravity, creating an effect of balance on the edge between reality and fiction, matter and spirit. This is ‘Genesis’ not as the history of the world, but as a pure, naked thought about it, arrested at the instant of its awakening.

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