Blue Monday

Artist statement:

The sculpture Blue Monday was created on the day that popular culture considers the most depressing day of the year. In a moment of emotional inertia, when I felt neither motivation nor driving energy, the act of creation became a quiet form of resistance, as well as a gentle affirmation of existence. It was a moment in which inner necessity overcame external immobility — an act through which, out of melancholy and weight, something nevertheless came into being.

The work consists of an elongated stone pedestal symbolizing stability and permanence, upon which rest two teardrop-shaped forms made of rusted iron sheet. These forms, joined by a sequence of rivets running along their surfaces, recall tears — fragments of inner pain, but also signs of a healing process. The rust suggests exposure to time, experience, and suffering; it is like skin bearing the marks of everything that has touched it. Yet within the sculpture lies the color blue — a symbol of sadness, silence, and melancholy, but also of inner peace, depth, and presence.

The contrast between external roughness and internal tenderness reflects the core idea of the work: true strength often lies in vulnerability. The rivets become connectors between the inner and the outer — a metaphor for discipline and the decision to move forward, even when it is difficult. They resemble impulses that initiate action, acts of faith in the meaning of creation.

Blue Monday is not merely an object; it is the materialized trace of an inner process. It emerged from feeling, but through discipline. It connects imagination and reality, intuition and form. In a time that values only speed and the immediately visible, this work defends the right to slowness, depth, and personal truth. It asks whether something that endures can be built from sorrow — and offers its answer in its very existence.