Colloquium cum Mea Umbra” from Latin means “Conversation with my shadow,”

Editions 4/15 to 14/15 are available for commissions/purchase.

This sculpture is concerned with the parts of the self that are difficult to examine directly.

The figure is shown with a snake, not as a narrative antagonist, but as a presence closely bound to him. The snake can carry several associations — instinct, fear, sexuality, knowledge, danger, change — and I am interested in that instability of meaning. It is neither simply threatening nor protective.

The title refers to the idea of the shadow as something formed by what a person excludes from their conscious sense of self. These excluded parts do not disappear. They continue to influence behaviour, desire and perception, often without being recognised.

I wanted the sculpture to focus on that relationship rather than on resolution. The figure is not overcoming anything, and the work does not propose reconciliation. It presents a state in which a person becomes aware of something within himself that he cannot easily name or dismiss.

My work is representational and naturalistic, and I use the body because physical form can carry psychological tension without requiring a fixed narrative. In this sculpture, the body, the snake and the space between them form a single situation: a private conversation with something that is already part of the self.