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image/svg+xml One is not born a poet one becomes one by embracing chaos and passion Langston Hughes One is not born a poet one becomes one by embracing chaos and passion Langston Hughes
Title
The other half
Date
2023
Materials
Clear glass, blue enamel
Technique
Pâte de verre
Dimensions
11 × 7 × 11 cm, 1 kg
Context

« They kept the other half just in case, but they will never know its taste. » The other half condenses a speculative fragment of knowledge into a compact glass form. Cast in pâte de verre, the volume evokes a halved fruit or organ—apple, heart—suspended between symbol and relic. One face is cut and polished, opening a clear optical field through which blue sigils, drawn from the artist’s evolving alphabet, circulate as if held in suspension. The opposing surface is pleated and creviced, its partial polish modulating transparency into opacity. The work stages a withheld completion: a missing counterpart that structures perception, echoing the fiction of a wisdom divided and never fully accessed.

image/svg+xml One is not born a poet one becomes one by embracing chaos and passion Langston Hughes One is not born a poet one becomes one by embracing chaos and passion Langston Hughes One is not born a poet one becomes one by embracing chaos and passion Langston Hughes One is not born a poet one becomes one by embracing chaos and passion Langston Hughes One is not born a poet one becomes one by embracing chaos and passion Langston Hughes One is not born a poet one becomes one by embracing chaos and passion Langston Hughes
Title
The other half
Date
2023
Materials
Clear glass, blue enamel
Technique
Pâte de verre
Dimensions
11 × 7 × 11 cm, 1 kg
Context

« They kept the other half just in case, but they will never know its taste. » The other half condenses a speculative fragment of knowledge into a compact glass form. Cast in pâte de verre, the volume evokes a halved fruit or organ—apple, heart—suspended between symbol and relic. One face is cut and polished, opening a clear optical field through which blue sigils, drawn from the artist’s evolving alphabet, circulate as if held in suspension. The opposing surface is pleated and creviced, its partial polish modulating transparency into opacity. The work stages a withheld completion: a missing counterpart that structures perception, echoing the fiction of a wisdom divided and never fully accessed.

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