The project also builds on the earlier work Overload (2023), created in the Glass Studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM). It explored the weight and physical heaviness of glass—a material traditionally associated with fragility. Cast sculptures weighing up to eight kilograms took on a new role, becoming massive objects with a center of gravity that “anchored” the space through their presence.
Overload was rooted in the phenomenon of burden and its transformation, often leading to deformation. Shifts in form, imprints, depressions, and grooves were not just visual records but reflections of the interplay between human impact and landscape as an active agent. In the broader context of landscape, its transformation cannot be fully captured within a single human lifespan. Beneath historical layers, nothing remains stable—everything is subject to change, erosion, sedimentation, and eventual deformation. The work highlights this instability and mutability of forms, their lifespan and disappearance, which is expressed not only in the material composition of the objects but also in their formal resolution.
