SCULPTURES

I’ve always wanted to make art that touches people.

– to create a personal experience I sculpt forms that connect you to your most noble emotions. The feelings that bind us deeply to others. Because they are the most important things in life:

To love and to be loved

Vengo a ofrecer mi corazón

Aurora Rosa (Portuguese marble)
1.64 × 1.30 × 0.30 m

This was the first sculpture in my heart series.
With it, I finally found my central theme: love.
I took the symbol of the heart and gave it a new dimension.

This sculpture now stands in the garden of Crematorium Daelwijck, Utrecht on the exact spot where we scattered my father’s ashes in 1984.

Monument for two Lovers

Encarnado and Jaune marble (Portuguese)
2.50 × 1.20 × 0.60 m

I created this sculpture for the Memento exhibition at the University Museum in Utrecht. The idea was to make my own grave. It turned out a little larger than planned.

I see myself as someone who loves to relate to others—even in death. A single grave would feel inappropriate. Sadly, the sculpture did not survive its most recent relocation.

To the Jasper Tower of Your Beautiful Flesh

Aurora Rosa and Breccia (Portuguese marble)
1.60 × 0.36 × 2.30 m

This sculpture was inspired by a fragment of a poem by Wu Tsao, a 19th-century Chinese Taoist priestess, Etuschka Benschop found for me. The lines speak of longing, distance, and surrender.

After the yellow sunset
The cold moon rises
Out of the gloomy mist.
I will not let down the blinds
Of spotted bamboo from their silver hook.
Tonight my dreams will follow the wind,
Suffering the cold,
To the jasper tower of your beautiful flesh.

 

(Translation from Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung)

Foto: Dennis Sies

Centerfold

Aurora Rosa (Portuguese marble) and reused Belgian Bluestone sidewalk curbs.
1.46 × 1.46 × 1.46 m

Centerfold rests on a six-sided pedestal made from old sidewalk curbs, salvaged from the streets of Utrecht. It is permanently installed and exhibited at Cemetery Kranenburg in Zwolle, the Netherlands.

Together | Gate of Hearts

Aurora Rosa (Portuguese marble) and reused Belgian Bluestone sidewalk curbs
3.25 × 3.25 × 1.10 m

This sculpture now marks the temporary home of Ukrainian refugees in Kortgene, on the beautiful island of Noord-Beveland. A place of welcome. A threshold of hope.

So many passions, so many desires, yield to the wind

Encarnado (Portuguese marble)
4.00 × 1.65 × 0.60 m

A sculpture about letting go. The winds of time soften all edges—but the longing remains.

Contact

mjacobse56@gmail.com