Hare Ear Antenna

Copper wire, tape, solder, acrylic paint, stainless steel chain, gypsophila branches.
192 cm × 30 cm × 21 cm

Statement

This wearable helmet-sculpture draws symbolic inspiration from the figure of Hypatia, an emblem of knowledge, inquiry, and dialogue between different disciplines. The work imagines a listening device capable of creating connections between diverse worlds, fostering new forms of relationship and mutual understanding.

A geometric structure made of copper wire supports two large hare ears that rise like antennas directed toward the surrounding environment. Copper, tape, vegetal matter, pigment, and chains converge into a form that symbolically amplifies the act of listening. Dried botanical elements intertwine with the metallic framework, evoking a continuity between natural intelligence and cultural construction, between organic memory and human knowledge.

From the dome descend delicate chains that trace invisible pathways between thought and matter, intuition and embodiment, the individual and collective experience. Their varying lengths suggest the complexity of the connections linking the inner dimension to the material world, making visible a network of relationships that normally remains hidden.

Along the copper wires emerge small clusters of colour that resemble electronic components, while being generated through an entirely different logic. Freed from their original technical function, these elements become new philosophical components: they do not transmit electricity but meaning, they do not process data but experience, they do not connect machines but forms of life, imagination, and knowledge. Like organisms that have grown spontaneously upon the structure, they suggest the emergence of contemporary relational circuits founded on listening, empathy, and interdependence.

Worn by a modern Hypatia, the work does not celebrate knowledge as a form of mastery, but listening as a practice of relationship. It becomes a receptive body inhabiting the space between nature and culture, science and art, technology and imagination, in search of the invisible connections that traverse the contemporary world.