The Origin

Description

This sculpture is a bold and poetic reinterpretation of Gustave Courbet’s famous painting ‘The Origin of the World’, carried into the space of organic matter. Renouncing painterly realism, the author turns to the language of nature itself.

The master took in his hands a piece of olive wood — a tree that has outlived more than one generation. Peering into the twists of its trunk, he saw the same miracle: the source, the gates of life. Inside the rough, maternal shell hides a tender, fragile sprout — an allegory of conception, the starting point of all that exists. The sculptor did not carve the form from outside but released it from the depths of the centuries-old wood.

A special refinement is achieved through deep hand polishing with wax and oil. The soft, warm sheen not only reveals the intricate pattern of the growth rings but also gives the surface the effect of living, breathing skin. Olive wood — a symbol of longevity, peace and abundance — becomes here not merely a material but a bearer of sacred meaning. The work balances on the edge of the erotic and the natural, the sublime and the sensual, inviting the viewer into a dialogue with the primordial beauty of the world.

A perfect accent for organic-modern and eco-design interiors, or as an intimate object in a home collection of contemporary art.

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