There is a turkish meal called çiğ köfte (literary « raw meat ») in which the seller takes a dough (made of boulghour and different kinds of spices) into his palm, and then closes his hand. A small form with his fingerprints is made. The client then spreads several of these forms on a flat bread, with some other ingredients on it. The small shape that was created just lasts a couple of minutes at the most. 

The same gesture is made in this piece. The small forms, originally made to be ephemeral, are made durable by the use of terra cotta. They talk about everyday life and time.

The Archetypes series are about things that are permanent and things that are ephemeral; things that are stable and things that are in movement. The four pieces relate to these axis.

I wrote to a friend, some years ago: “Decisions I have been taking since a couple of years have put me on a instable position, a position I like. "Poetry comes out of instability", says Chris Marker in Sunless. Most of the days I feel that I inhabit an unstable world, where everything is likely to change. I can change. Things are in movement, the next year will be different from this one: I will be somewhere else. And I like it. I like the foam of the waves and the sunpatches on the wall. But there are some other days where I seek other kinds of things. I wish—and it is a melancholic, mournful wish—that there were permanent things. I wish there were things I can hold on to. Those days I prefer stones and constellations, and I like to feel some kind of reassuring weight and texture in my pocket.”