Every celebration reveals what a culture chooses to honor.
For centuries, the Venus de Milo has embodied enduring ideals of beauty. Centerpiece, places this classical icon within the language of contemporary celebration, transforming Venus into both masterpiece and centerpiece.
Inspired by the rituals that surround life's most meaningful occasions, this piece explores how beauty is presented, admired, and elevated through ceremony. A tiered cake—created to gather attention before disappearing—becomes an unexpected companion to one of history's most enduring artistic forms. Together they blur the boundaries between permanence and impermanence, spectacle and tradition.
Working in hand-cast plaster, the art invites viewers to consider not only what we celebrate, but why. Centerpiece suggests that every generation creates its own rituals of admiration, revealing that the objects we elevate often tell us as much about ourselves as the ideals we inherit.
Material: Plaster/Acrylic
Dimensions: 22.5"H x 8"W x 8"D
