MIRELLA, earthenware SCULPTURE BY Roberto Tagliazucchi

Mirella’s face does not seek resemblance,
but presence.

Terracotta holds time like warm dust,
receives the silence of the gaze
and returns it unguarded.

Here the portrait does not describe a person:
it listens to what remains
when the name withdraws.

Mirella is fragile memory,
a form barely enduring
between light and disappearance.