Based on painting by Pascal Dagnan Bouveret
Digital sculpt: Leila Khalili
Base sculpt: Tue Kaae
Painting: Jakob Villien
This model is a depection og a horrible and sad event, where Marguerite has euthanized her infant, as she is sentenced to death for the accidental murder of her mother. Faust has drugged her mother with sleep potion in order to be with Marguerite, but her mother is accidentally killed. The scene is a depection of a whirlwind of torment, as if in purgatory or in a hurricane of anger, guilt and sadness.
Leila made the sculpt, and whilst it litterally depicts a sad scene of losing ones child, it also harnesses more complex emotions and relations, family ties and gender inequalities.
Jakob wanted the scene to be brutal and inescapable, and still have beauty and sadness. So they asked Tue to be the creator of the complex shape of the swirl around an old candle.
The scene is both beautiful and tormenting at the same time, and Jakob painted the whole scene to depict this contradiction. For each of the creator different values and emotions are affixed to the piece, and for Jakob it is more the feeling of failing as a father and fear of losing that shines through.
The colours twirl inside angrily but also has a beauty in the stellar patterns and dancing lights.
Who really has ownership over the artistry is difficult to say. It has changed hands many times.
