A dorometer that lacks nothing

The title is, from the start, a small manifesto: a dorometer – an imaginary device that would measure longing. And the addition "from which nothing is missing" suggests the idea of an inventory of essential things, as if longing were made up of many pieces: memory, distance, roots, people, time.

The sculpture looks like a mechanical totem: overlapping, clear, almost engineering volumes, combined with metallic elements that seem like arms, axes or indicators. This "device" aesthetic transforms a feeling that is difficult to define into a measurable form, with components, like a laboratory instrument of emotion.

The contrast between the massive sandstone and the thin metal stages the tension between the stable and the fragile, between the durability of matter and the volatility of experience. The rhythmic perforations in the vertical body can be read as a "scale" or a measuring matrix, and the metal arm, with the small weights at the ends, is reminiscent of a balance: longing as an ever-unstable balance between here and there.

Ultimately, the work speaks of longing not as passive nostalgia, but as a force that orders our lives: an inner mechanism that constantly weighs what we have and what we lack - and the paradox of the title tells us that, sometimes, "nothing is missing" precisely because longing contains everything.