Disconnection (A Prayer Without Address)

This work addresses the human desire to establish contact with the divine and the persistent failure to achieve that connection. The sculpture stages a moment of sincere offering that is not answered to.

The work is informed by my observation: while expressions of spiritual experience or existential vulnerability are considered unfashionable, even inappropriate, within corporate and professional environments, their brief appearance produces an immediate and palpable stillness. When such experiences are mentioned—often cautiously, almost apologetically—conversation stops. The silence that follows is not indifference, but attention. It is collective, intense, and revealing.

The work situates this silence within a broader cultural struggle. Despite unprecedented access to technology, entertainment, and constant stimulation, many individuals experience a deep absence of grounding or purpose. Rising levels of psychological distress and self-harm signal not excess suffering alone, but a crisis of meaning—an inability to locate oneself within anything larger or enduring.

This sculpture reflects on contemporary disconnection: the persistence of spiritual longing in a culture that struggles to articulate it. An offering is made, yet remains unreceived, mirroring a society rich in distraction but uncertain of meaning.

Cast in epoxy resin, acrylic pigments, wax (can be editioned in bronze).

Edition 1/6

Size (approx): 70 H x 80 W x 35 cm