Potato scupltures
series of 8 palm sized sculpture (potatoes, salt, watercolour)

Potatoes are tightly connected to agricultural works, escpecially in our home where the whole family took part of the process of growing them in our garden. The rotation of the earth, the digging of the holes and also the planting were the progresses we made together: my parents, my brother and my grandmother. This action, like all of the houseworks are eminently monotone. A repetitive working procedure, a sort of meditatio or a prayer.
In the life of the village’s peasantry work and religion was always an organic element of life. In my grandmother’s shelf a lot of religious relic; calendars with pictures of saints, Virgin Mary-figures and crucifixes can be found. Copying these relics into potatoes I try to preserve memories of a life in which work and religion composed an inseparable unity.
The conservation of the potato-scupltures implemented with salt. With this phenomenon the moisture - the ’water of life’ - seeps away, while the potato itself shrinks. This process connected to the distortion of our memories. The water’s disappearance from the plant is in parallel with the fading of our emotions when we look at one relic left behind by our ancestors.