A small knight sits astride a horse, armed with a sword and curiosity. The sculpture echoes equestrian monuments to great warriors, yet here it stands as a tribute to childhood and courage. A boy has stopped in the middle of a meadow, setting out to hunt grasshoppers. In his imagination, he crossed the boundary between the human world and the world of nature — he saddled a grasshopper and rode off toward adventure. The grasshopper carries a double meaning — it is a creature of nature, and a symbol of the leap into the unknown. Every person, every generation faces their own grasshopper. The question is whether we dare to climb on — and whether we still know where to find it. Nature is not a backdrop; it is the foundation on which we stand.

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.

This monumental gold fly represents the polemic over what everyone longs for. The inspiration for this sculpture came from a poem by Adolf Heyduk and the fascination of the insect itself. A fly, so small, useless and annoying yet so beautiful if it’s possible to see it in detail under a microscope. A fascinating biological machine we are not able to perceive with the naked eye. And that’s why it’s been enlarged to a larger-than-life scale so we can admire every little detail and get the polemic developed when confronted. Polemic over inherent size and perhaps even happiness, so fragile, seemingly complicated yet so easy sometimes, when a person is able to perceive little things.

Polemic over the value of things.