This body of work explores the relationship between lights and shadows while enhancing the human form. It’s a celebration of strength and softness.

Series inspired by: Le Penseur de Rodin. The Thinker, a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin (Model: Fazon Gray).

“The Thinker was entitled The Poet. He represented Dante, author of the Divine Comedy which had inspired The Gates, leaning forward to observe the circles of Hell, while meditating on his work. The Thinker was therefore initially both a being with a tortured body, almost a damned soul, and a free-thinking man, determined to transcend his suffering through poetry. The pose of this figure owes much to Carpeaux’s Ugolino (1861) and to the seated portrait of Lorenzo de’ Medici carved by Michelangelo (1526-31).” - Musée de Rodin