Soldered brass, 16 x 12 x 11, 2010.
A vertical tabletop assemblage in soldered brass that reinterprets the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Christ through an abstract, structural vocabulary. Set upon a square pedestal base and a baluster column, the work constructs a central lap-like basin that supports a dense cluster of diagonal, reclining brass elements. Crowned by a hollow circular halo and a small, flag-tipped staff, the piece translates the maternal grief, weight, and sacred tragedy of the classical pietá into a physical syntax of assembled brass relics.
Concave dish fragments, turned handles, weight-like cylinders, and a scalloped leaf-like form cluster tightly in the center, evoking a broken figure draped across an upright supporting armature. By assembling utilitarian hardware and decorative remnants into a sacral silhouette, Pietà bridges Renaissance devotional sculpture with modern industrial assemblage, offering a poignant meditation on loss, support, and material memory.
