“Gildscape” presents a fabricated landscape, part dreamscape, part aftermath, where a gilded palm tree becomes both monument and witness. Gold-leafed palm seeds and branches emerge from oolite stone, their luminous surfaces interrupted by embedded bullets, binding symbols of natural endurance to the unmistakable mark of human violence. Eco-resin icicles cling to the structure like suspended time, appearing to melt upward and outward, as if the work itself is slowly dissolving into air.

The palm, long associated with survival, migration, and coastal ecologies, is transformed here into a relic, its gilding suggesting reverence, value, and preservation, while simultaneously exposing fragility beneath the sheen. Seeds glimmer as latent futures, yet their metallic stillness questions whether growth can truly continue within altered, contaminated landscapes.

It exists in a state of quiet tension: between permanence and erosion, sanctification and damage, abundance and loss. The sculpture whispers rather than declares, inviting viewers to reflect on cycles of growth and fracture, and on time itself, not as linear progress, but as a slow accumulation of traces, where nature persists, adapts, and remembers, even as it is reshaped by human hands.

Materials: Palm tree, magohany and almond seeds, oolite stone, bullets, cement, gold and brass gilding, eco resin, ochra pigments.

L 61cm x H 71 cm x W 25 cm - 2024