Sculpture
In my sculpture, I work with themes of symbolism, ephemerality, and duality through figurative form. Symbolism draws from Eastern Orthodox tradition and Romanian folklore—sometimes echoing each other, sometimes colliding, faith beside older pagan roots. Ephemerality speaks to the passing of time, the visible signs of decay, and the persistence of spirit against what fades. Duality remains constant: good and evil are never equal, yet always struggle to overcome one another.
These ideas are rooted in the worlds that formed me: the faith and rituals of Orthodoxy, the humor and irony woven into folklore, and the contradictions of a society shifting from communism to the uncertain afterlife of democracy. Together they shaped a vision where the sacred and the everyday, permanence and change, irony and devotion all coexist.
These works are not answers. They are traces of belief, doubt, hope, and persistence—an effort to give form, in earth and fire, to the shared spirit and emotions of life in all its forms.