Waiting

Waiting is a sculpture about the silence of parents – that silence that signifies wisdom, thought and deep meditation. The work does not ask to be viewed in a hurry, but contemplated in silence.

It is a sculpture of suspended time. Two figures – father and mother – look at each other face to face, separated by a table of silence. A table that unites them, does not distance them. It becomes the place where unspoken words, postponed thoughts and questions that, at a certain age, are no longer in a hurry to be answered, gather.

The figure on the left (the father) is facing forward, with his hands resting on his knees. His posture suggests security and stability, but also a fatigue that is more existential than physical. The gaze directed towards the woman in front is a sign of a desire for dialogue.

The figure on the right (the mother), seen from behind, is enclosed in an almost monastic silence. Her back becomes a wall – not of rejection, but of protection. This positioning creates an emotional asymmetry: one is waiting for an answer, the other is waiting, perhaps, for the courage to offer it.

The work does not reveal the object of expectation. The viewer is left to intuit: a piece of news, a forgiveness or the return of those who have left – the children. It is precisely this suggested narrative that gives strength to the sculpture. Expectation is not about an event, but about the state of living between yesterday and tomorrow, between said and unsaid, between hope and resignation.

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