The Tension of Emptiness

My art practice is concerned with the question “what has Maltese spirituality lost to time and occupation?”. I attempt to fill this gap through an obsessive creation of imagined ritualistic objects with no clear deity of worship. I intentionally refuse to sculpt anything with a face, as this lack of religious identity is central to the potential energy my work possesses.

Emptiness is everywhere in my final pieces. The vessels are without flowers. The castles and cathedrals lack foundations, let alone sculpted furniture or residents. Unadopted reliquaries stand empty on plinths, their gentle cups awaiting activation through ritual. Through these objects I aim to draw attention to the absent, and to the emptiness a lack of identity can bring.

The empty arch is a recurring motif found throughout my body of work. It is a desire for more left unfulfilled. The intentional blank space may be interpreted as a doorway to death, with only nothingness on the other side.

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