Immersion
By Julia Gogol · Natural Smoky Quartz
Eyes closed, the figure withdraws into the quiet of smoky quartz. Light enters the crystal, rests upon the face and travels through its depths. The stone becomes a place of inward passage, where the boundaries of the body seem to soften and thought gives way to stillness.
In Julia Gogol’s vision, Immersion holds the moment when breathing slows and the need to control everything begins to fall away. There is a quiet courage in this surrender: to remain with oneself, to listen, to allow what lies beneath the surface to emerge.
At the base of the spine, the brass serpent coils as Kundalini—the dormant creative force of life in the artist’s spiritual interpretation. Its stillness holds the possibility of awakening. Here, strength begins in silence, before it becomes movement, intention or creation.
The smoky quartz carries its own depth of time. Formed within the Earth long before the sculptor’s hand approached it, the crystal now shelters an intimate human gesture. For a moment, our brief lives meet the vastness of geological time.
Immersion invites us to linger at that meeting: a face within a crystal, and our own, looking in.
Materials: natural smoky quartz; cast and patinated brass serpent; labradorite base.
Dimensions: 270 × 182 × 182 mm.
Year: 2022.
Immersion forms part of the JP GEMS & CARVINGS collection. Julia Gogol’s work is also represented in the permanent collection of the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
Immersion
By Julia Gogol · Natural Smoky Quartz
Eyes closed, the figure withdraws into the quiet of smoky quartz. Light enters the crystal, rests upon the face and travels through its depths. The stone becomes a place of inward passage, where the boundaries of the body seem to soften and thought gives way to stillness.
In Julia Gogol’s vision, Immersion holds the moment when breathing slows and the need to control everything begins to fall away. There is a quiet courage in this surrender: to remain with oneself, to listen, to allow what lies beneath the surface to emerge.
At the base of the spine, the brass serpent coils as Kundalini—the dormant creative force of life in the artist’s spiritual interpretation. Its stillness holds the possibility of awakening. Here, strength begins in silence, before it becomes movement, intention or creation.
The smoky quartz carries its own depth of time. Formed within the Earth long before the sculptor’s hand approached it, the crystal now shelters an intimate human gesture. For a moment, our brief lives meet the vastness of geological time.
Immersion invites us to linger at that meeting: a face within a crystal, and our own, looking in.
Materials: natural smoky quartz; cast and patinated brass serpent; labradorite base.
Dimensions: 270 × 182 × 182 mm.
Year: 2022.
Immersion forms part of the JP GEMS & CARVINGS collection. Julia Gogol’s work is also represented in the permanent collection of the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
