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let me go, 2025​

steel, screws, natural rust​

67 x 8 x 10 in.    /   170 x 20 x 25 cm.

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The found tree trunk offered an immediate site where the built world and the natural world meet; concrete, wood, and water meeting in one place. By placing the steel curves along the trunk, I let the material respond to an existing line rather than impose a new one. Like moss growing, the work is meant to adapt, weather, and shift with the elements. I left the steel untreated so it can rust, react to the lake air, and potentially break or loosen with time. In continuing to explore change, this piece moves beyond form to consider how transformation unfolds when the work is left fully to its surroundings, how materials transition, surrender, and re-form through exposure. What emerges is a work shaped as much by natural forces as by intention, letting transformation occur on its own terms.

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transformation, 2024

From left to right:

 

eros, 2024

steel, rust

52 x 30 x 24 in.   /    132 x 76 x 60 cm.

 

genesis, 2024

steel

59 x 18 x 18 in.   /   142 x 46 x 46 cm.

 

rebirth, 2024

steel, paint

63 x 18 x 24 in.   /    160 x 46 x 60 cm.

 

This series follows a journey of transformation through the stages of creation, intensity and reclamation. The sculptures’ curved fluid forms embody the organic, continuous nature of this transformation. The shapes flow and bend mirroring how change is rarely linear. They come together to show the cycle of loss and reemergence.

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permanence, 2023​

steel, rope​

6 x 4.1 x 2.5 ft.    /   180 x 125 x 76 cm.

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Metal is found in nature thus having the capacity to be part of the natural world, by taking such a rigid material and manipulating to follow natural textures I juxtapose its stiffness to the flow of nature. I wanted to place a permanent element in an ever changing environment, materialising ones protective shell and how it can remain rigid regardless of how they surround themselves.

©2025 by Rea Silvia Emmanouil 

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