In October 2020, I enrolled in the MA Sculpture course at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. After three weeks, we left the Academy and began studying online due to the obvious reason. We did not return until the beginning of the second semester in mid-February.

I had a hard time accepting this situation, especially since my family was also going through a rough period at that time. I had never felt so powerless before in my entire life.

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During the period of limited movement and restrictions on closeness, touching, hugging, etc., I contemplated how to manipulate material in a different way - without direct contact, without my control, from a distance. Stone, a material perceived as eternal, is transformed into a transient substance that is being dissolved, destroyed, tortured, and so on.

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I have been conducting various tests with hydrochloric acid and stone. In this case, I dripped acid onto nine pieces of stone while counting the drops. The first stone received 100 drops, the second 200, and so on, with the last one receiving 900 drops. This created a kind of scale. I see it as a visual representation of the passage of time, persistence, and the inability to resist. It is also a reminder that a single drop may not make an impact, but many small drops can change or manipulate matter.

Mentor: prof. Alen Ožbolt (Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

​Photographs: Personal archive

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Related projects: Disappearance, Disappearance