Rangamancha (The Human Cross)

Carved from warm, living wood, these cross-like totems reframe the language of monument and altar into a tactile meditation on human faculties—seeing, touching, listening, remembering—each relief embedded like a small testimony in the architecture of the form. The strict axial symmetry is softened by the rhythmic “crowds” of rounded pegs, suggesting a community gathered around an inner axis of belief, while the alternating smooth and chiseled surfaces let light move across the grain like time passing through memory. Faces and hands appear as fragments rather than portraits, implying that identity here is collective and unfinished, a devotion to presence rather than doctrine. Set on sober plinths, the works stand as quiet sentinels where craft becomes cosmology, and the body’s gestures become a vocabulary of spirit.