Bolivar: Metabolic Talisman

Fed layer by layer with clay, fruit skins, leaves, spices, metals, and wine, Bolivar emerges as a body rather than an object. Each ingredient is not decoration but nourishment, absorbed into a dense skin that remembers growth and decay. Called a metabolic talisman, the work transforms matter into presence: a creature that carries both the weight of earth and the spark of becoming.

Material accumulation

Clay, fruit skins, leaves, spices, metals and wine are added in successive layers. Their absorption into the work gives the talisman its dense, changing skin.