Column 7 (Mystical Figure)

This totemic sculpture rises as a stacked cosmology, where a tender, blue-bodied deity anchors the composition while earthen strata above and around it suggest the slow weight of landscape, memory, and myth. The carver’s tactile surfaces—pebbled stone, incised foliage, and rhythmic bands of ochre—turn light into a kind of narrative, catching on edges like prayer marks and settling into recesses like silence. Crowning the figure, the dense canopy of leaves reads as both protection and burden, an emblem of fertility and continuity that presses downward even as it points upward. The work ultimately stages a dialogue between the human-scaled and the elemental, proposing divinity not as escape from matter, but as something patiently built from it.