Sculptures en Bois & Objets Artistiques
Awakening
A dragon that slept for four centuries in an olive root has found its footing on a metal pantograph with springs. Nature and engineering at the point of balance.
Description
This sculpture embodies the idea of a miraculous transformation. What lay buried in the earth for centuries, absorbing the memory of millennia, suddenly found the will to move. The master did not carve the form but revealed it, discerning the outlines of a mythical dragon within the chaos of natural curves. The voids in the intertwining roots ceased to be accidental defects—they became eye sockets, nostrils, and sensitive ears catching the ether. The space within the wood acquired meaning.
The sculptor did not create the dragon with chisel and axe; he awakened it with the gentle touch of wax and oil. This careful polishing did not hide the wrinkles of time but highlighted them, filling the texture with living warmth and restoring breath to the ancient root.
The ancient, heavy root literally hovers in the air, held by a strict metal pantograph with a spring system. This engineering framework creates a tense yet harmonious dialogue between the archaic “chaos” of nature and the calculated “order” of industrial aesthetics. The composition is completed by a base of white marble, lending the object a sense of museum-grade finality.
Beauty here lies not in perfect geometry, but in the material’s ability to breathe, to retain its roughness and chips, and to tell the story of winds and sun. This is a sculpture-artifact imbued with the aesthetics of wabi-sabi. An ideal object for a space seeking not just decor, but a story.
The root came alive suddenly. The sky craves flight— Dragon of olive.
The root came alive.
The sky longs for flight —
the olive’s dragon.Hanko
Additional information
| Dimensions | 109 × 60 × 42 cm |
|---|---|
| Size of the stand base | 30 × 30 cm |
| Artist | Hanko |
| Material | Olive root (~400 years old), stainless steel, springs, marble |
| Year | 2024 |
| Series | Transformations |
| Edition | 1/1 — unique work |
| Technique | hand carving, oil, wax, industrial frame |
| Aesthetics | biomorphism, industrial steampunk |
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