Ut Sol… (2022) Italian agate: H. 29 cm. – 11.4 in.

Carved from translucent Italian agate, Ut Sol… appears to contain light rather than merely reflect it. The seated figure turns upward in a gesture of quiet attention, as though receiving an invisible force that permeates both stone and body.

Georges Bataille described the sun as the archetypal gift: *”The origin and essence of our wealth are given in the radiation of the sun, which dispenses energy—wealth—without any return. The sun gives without ever receiving.”*¹ Ut Sol…imagines the body as one of the sun’s countless recipients, absorbing daylight and releasing it from within. Rather than possessing light, the sculpture inhabits it, performing the very generosity Bataille attributes to the sun: an uninterrupted passage of energy from one form into another. It becomes a meditation on abundance, gratitude, and the continuous gift that makes life possible.

¹ Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Vol. I: Consumption, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Zone Books, 1988), 28.