Tied Hands

Materials: Plaster Vertebras (recycled from used medical cast) and Cotton Threads

This work deals mainly with the fragility of that element, which gives stability and structure to the organic body. The material being used – plaster – points out as well to the notion of fragility. The circular shape maintains a dialogue with the proposed location of this work – within a church. The circular shape has a central meaning in both religion and science. It represents perfection and wholeness and even God. It may also represent the circle of life, the transition from a material to an immaterial form, and to the contrast and the connection between body and soul. However, the open-endedness shape of this work may call for reflection on all these notions. The end can also be a beginning – perhaps of something new. The future is not simply determined by the past and there is therefore also room for hope.