Cat 1 (Circle of Life) Basalt Stone Animal Sculpture

This circular relief reads like an ancient cosmogram, its cratered central form pulling the eye inward while smaller, looping silhouettes orbit like attendant spirits or embryonic fragments of the same idea. The muted, earthen tonality and granular surface catch light with a quiet severity, turning touch into vision and lending the work a geological patience, as though it has been pressed out of time rather than made. Compositionally, the dominant spiral-vessel at the center suggests both a wound and a womb—an ambiguity that charges the piece with themes of origin, containment, and cyclical return. The surrounding forms echo the central curve, proposing a narrative of repetition and metamorphosis, where identity is not singular but continually cast, shed, and reformed.