What Is Happiness?

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What Is Happiness?

2017
relief - bronze, golden-plated bronze
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The sculpture was inspired by a poem by Adolf Heyduk and a fascination with insects themselves. A fly, so small, useless and annoying, yet beautiful when viewed in detail under a microscope. A fascinating biological machine that we are unable to perceive with the naked eye.

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