Gloss

A work dedicated to the great Eminescu. The poet is represented integrated into the volume of a sarcophagus, suggesting the silhouette of a Byzantine saint, who solemnly rises above the irreversible passage of time.

A thin body emerges from a block of sandstone, trapped in its own shape, as if in a shell of time. The outer contour is reminiscent of a sarcophagus, a cold, protective edge that narrows the world and forces it to look up.

Within this form, Eminescu does not appear as an ordinary portrait, but as a presence "seated" in solemnity. The face is frontal, calm, with a gaze that does not seek spectacle, but distance. The hair, worked extensively, draws a crown of volume, and around the head there is a suggestion of a nimbus, as if the poet had passed from biography to icon.

The body is not anatomically sculpted, but transformed into a garment surface. The texture flows in long, repeated lines, like folds or lines of writing. It is like a never-ending page: a vertical parchment in which poetry becomes material. The repetition of these striations brings out the idea of the title - "Glossa" - not as a quote, but as a rhythm: the same movement repeated, the same lesson turned on all sides.

Everything communicates a passage: the poet is trapped in the form of the sarcophagus, but it is precisely this "closure" that lifts him up. It is not the image of death, but of preservation. It is not an end, but a fixation in memory: Eminescu as a figure who rises above the irreversible passage of time, not through grandiose gestures, but through his heavy, controlled silence.

The sculpture stops you, makes you look up and tells you, without explaining, that some presences are not consumed, they settle down.