Ammonite

The piece is a three-dimensional textile sculpture, supported on a rigid, dark-colored circular base, which in turn rests on a cylindrical pedestal. It is composed of cream-colored fabrics that are coiled into a robust spiral, reminiscent of a fossilized shell. The textile materials exhibit various manipulations: gathering, pleating, braiding, and stretching, creating distinct reliefs across the entire surface. Some areas show intense compression, creating tight, parallel lines, while others open into looser folds or spongy textures. The core of the spiral is composed of compressed layers of fabric wrapped concentrically, while the outer surface displays mixed techniques that add visual and tactile variation. There is no additional color: the piece remains within a monochromatic palette of warm whites and beiges, reinforcing the perception of volume and the handcrafted nature of the textile. The frontal and lateral lighting used in the image accentuates the folds and depth of the spiral, creating sharp shadows in some of the recesses. The work is set against a brown fabric background that contrasts with the light tone of the object, highlighting its sculptural silhouette. In Ammonite, the artist evokes the geological memory of form. The spiral—one of nature’s oldest structures—appears here not as a fossil, but as living matter in a process of expansion and retraction. The soft, flexible textile recreates what, in Earth’s history, was mineral rigidity. Softness becomes compressed time. The work seems to contain a center that is never fully revealed: the layers curl upon themselves, protecting an origin that remains hidden, as if the piece guarded a primordial secret. Each fold and each twist is evidence of the manual gesture that constructs it; the visible trace of a process that accumulates life in a spiral. The monochrome cream palette eliminates any chromatic distraction: what matters here is texture, relief, the transition between inside and outside. The volume rises on its pedestal like a fragment torn from the seabed or the interior of a body, but reimagined through textiles. Ammonite proposes an archaeology of the future: a vestige that comes not from the past, but from what is still gestating. A soft fossil that breathes. A cyclical time that can be touched.