Untitled 2012

This sculptural installation by Michel Blazy, makes me think of a meringue, a cumulus cloud, or maybe a cocoon. It’s built from the ground up, a mass of white, light, and airy forms. I wonder what it was like for Blazy to create this? Did it grow organically, each addition responding to the last, an intuitive process of building and shaping? Or was it meticulously planned, a calculated arrangement of forms and shadows? The texture is so evocative! I imagine it being soft, yielding to the touch, yet structurally sound. It reminds me a little of the work of Eva Hesse, who worked with latex to create similarly organic forms. There's a sense of impermanence too, a feeling that this sculpture might shift or settle, that it might not last forever. But maybe that's the point - that art, like life, is always in flux, always changing. And that's what makes it so exciting.