The Code of Sisyphus III

2025

The Code of Sisyphus III: pair of pale ceramic tablets with spiral and shell impressions
The Code of Sisyphus III: pair of pale ceramic tablets with spiral and shell impressions

WHEN: 2025
SIZE: Each tablet 15 × 40 cm
MATERIAL: Stoneware with chamotte, object impressions, lost-wax traces, natural pigments
AVAILABILITY: Unique work


The work is composed of ceramic tablets that function like an ancient counting device, an abacus not of numbers but of faults and redemptions. Each surface holds negative imprints: concentric circles, shells, serpent-like traces, and hollow voids. These marks were once objects pressed into clay, later removed or consumed by fire. What remains is an archive of absence, where guilt and redemption are both recorded and erased.

Some signs are shallow, almost disappearing; others are deep, like wounds that resist time. Together they create a rhythm, a code to be read without words. It is an abacus of sins: a silent ledger where matter becomes witness, where memory, erosion, and ritual converge.

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