The Eve # 10

This form differs from her sisters; she is not a silhouette of a body, but a landscape of a face. "The Eve # 10" bears features that belong to no single nation yet are recognized by all. She is the universal image of the Displaced—the face of the refugee seen across Europe, etched with a history not of borders, but of departure.

There is a profound stoicism in her expression, a silent dignity that masks an internal abyss. She embodies the "Universal Stranger," one who carries her homeland only in her memory. As Dante Alighieri wrote in the Divine Comedy regarding the pain of exile: "You shall leave everything you love most dearly: this is the arrow that the bow of exile shoots first."

The Artist used the grain of the wood to simulate the topography of a lost land. Her hollow eyes do not look at the present; they are forever turned inward, gazing at a home that no longer exists. She is a monument to the silent grief of millions who have had to leave their roots behind to save their lives.