| TITLE: puppa in abundance
| MATERIAL: stoneware clay, chalk paint sealed
| HEIGHT: approx. 55cm
PUPPA IN ABUNDANCE is a sculpture born from contradiction: soft yet weighted, joyful yet unreadable, tactile yet unreachable. Standing nude and unguarded, Puppa’s body holds a generous, almost maternal form — a vessel of plenty. Yet her face is obscured, banded that renders her blind and deaf. Her open, red lips suggest she remains outspoken, or perhaps one eternally forming. She exists in a state of suspended offering.
Ambiguous, a purposeful erasure of racial identity, allowing Puppa to embody the universal. She belongs to no one.
Yellow spheres trickle down her hip — visible manifestations of plenty — while one more is hidden behind her back, clenched in her hand. This final sphere is secret, maybe sacred. Is it greed? Is it preservation? Or perhaps a reminder: that even in overflowing generosity, something is always withheld.
The sculpture toys with the philosophy of abundance. Is abundance a blessing or a blinder? When we overflow, do we become less perceptive — less aware of others’ needs, even our own? Puppa’s sensory deprivation suggests a subtle warning: in having everything, she might hear nothing. See nothing. Feel nothing.
Yet, there is colour — warm, unexpected joy in her whimsical palette, in the almost clown-like design of her painted lips. Puppa may be blind and deaf, but she remains vibrant, playful, alive. This contradiction is deliberate. She is a totem of the both/and: abundance and concealment, joy and disconnection, generosity and solitude.
In a world that seeks to define, categorize, and quantify all that we possess — Puppa resists. She invites you to consider:
Does true abundance require us to turn away from the noise, to hold something just for ourselves, unseen?
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The text above was generated with the help of AI. The machine received images of the work, very precise information and prompts, yet was given space for own interpretations. The result is a very interesting interpretation, in some places astonishingly close to my heart, in other parts quite abstruse. A very interesting experiment to interpret a very emotional, human expression by a „data cloud“.
