Cat 12 Basalt Stone Animal Sculpture

This sculptural form reads like a mute sentry—its crisp, beveled crown tightening into a downward-pointing chevron—while the body dissolves into a dense, webbed skin that suggests growth, erosion, and time’s restless hand. Cool blue-gray tonality and the stark black field isolate the object into a kind of metaphysical pedestal, where light skims the smooth planes and then catches in the tangled texture like memory snagging on lived experience. The tension between engineered geometry and organic turbulence turns the piece into a meditation on containment: an austere vessel holding a private storm. Its symmetry promises order, yet the surface insists on vulnerability, as if structure is only ever a temporary truce with the unruly world beneath.