Seven

Sculpture made as thematic artwork for “Labinski uzlet likovnosti 2025” on theme of “Where did Eden go?” and presented at the Labin Public Art Gallery. An old metal shopping cart symbolizes the contemporary world that has lost Eden. Once a tool for gathering food and necessities, the cart now becomes a cold metaphor for consumer society that has replaced the spiritual and natural with the material and transient. Inside the cart are six white plaster apples evoking the symbolism of forbidden fruit: desire, choice, sin, yet stripped to their essential form and meaning. The white color carries silence, purity, and emptiness, creating space for contemplation and reflection. Six apples suggest imperfection, as seven carries symbolic completeness; Eden is incomplete. Something is missing. Perhaps the seventh apple is lost in the consumer whirlwind, or perhaps it symbolizes what we have yet to discover within ourselves.