The nest 

terracotta, raffia, iron 

2019

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The nest is the first place that life knows.
A fragile yet resilient weave, built from what the world offers, branch by branch, fiber by fiber, until it becomes a shelter.

It is an intimate space suspended between vulnerability and protection, where waiting slowly transforms into birth. Its embracing form recalls the maternal womb, that primordial place where everything begins, before it even has a name.

The Nest thus becomes a metaphor for belonging: a place to inhabit and protect, but also a place from which, one day, to depart.
It embodies the universal need to feel welcomed and safe, while at the same time evoking the inevitable desire to open oneself to the world.

Between fragility and strength, the nest holds what does not yet exist, but is waiting to become.

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Note: The sculpture was part of the solo exhibition Man, Woman and in-between at Vaska Emanuilova Gallery's - Sofia City Art Gallery (BG)