At first glance, this sculpture induces a quiet tension- a tower of rounded forms stacked in alternating textures, polished smoothness rising against raw, volcanic roughness.
Each sphere seems poised on the edge of slipping, as though the entire structure rests on nothing more than the hope that balance will hold. Yet the truth is entirely different: this is a single, unbroken piece of stone, carved to appear as though it could fall apart at the slightest touch.
The artist plays deliberately with perception. Life, after all, often feels like this sculpture looks- a delicate negotiation between opposing forces: soft and sharp, ease and effort, certainty and uncertainty. But just as these spheres are not separate, neither are the facets of our lives. Beneath the surface-level imbalance lies a deep, invisible coherence- the firmness of stone, the continuity of being.
The contrast between the highly polished black segments and the coarse grey ones adds emotional rhythm. The smooth forms suggest clarity, moments of calm; the rough ones, the textured complexities of experience. Stacked together, they create a vertical meditation on resilience- how we rise not by eliminating contrast, but by integrating it.
“Precarious Balance” becomes, then, a metaphor for the human journey: what appears fragile is often quietly secure, and what seems like chaos may be a single, strong line of becoming.
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