This portrait of a bearded old man, crowned with gears and marked with blue across the face, resembles a mythological figure from an archaic future. The stern gaze and solid structure evoke both the divine and the mechanical. A delicate painted figure on his forehead suggests a kind of enlightenment—a spark of wisdom or madness. The piece invites us to imagine rusted gods and cybernetic oracles.

Sculpture carved in plaster, based on a cast from a fine grog refractory clay model, and reproduced in resin. Painted with shellac, chalk paint, acrylics, and varnish.

20 x 12 x 40 cm | 8 x 4 x 15 in