The Eve # 24

Pedestals define epochs. In the golden age of the Medici and Michelangelo, Woman was the axis of the world, admired and sung as the pinnacle of Creation. Yet, history has dark turns. In the era of the Bolsheviks and totalitarian greyness, she was dragged down from the heavens, put on her knees before the railroad tracks, and forced to trade the lily for a sledgehammer.

"The Eve # 24" carries the memory of both eras, but she makes a choice. She is the Eve who rises from the knees. She refuses the "equality" of the hammer and demands the "sovereignty" of the pedestal. She will only yield to the embrace of a custodian who understands where Woman, Mother, and the Beauty of the human race truly belong—not in the dust of utility, but in the light of adoration.

Her silent demand echoes the timeless verses of Friedrich Schiller, who reminded Europe of the sacred duty to revere the feminine spirit:

"Honor to women! To them it is given
To garden the earth with the roses of heaven,
All blessed, she linketh the Loves in their choir;
In the veil of the Graces her beauty concealing,
She tends on each altar that's hallowed to feeling,
And keeps ever-living the fire!"

This sculpture is not just an object; it is a restoration of dignity. She waits for the one who is ready to build that altar again.