Made during the pandemic lockdown using leftover clays from the artist’s studio, these delicate renderings capture the artist’s face in a state of partial disappearance. Evoking the transcultural death mask—an imprint of a person no longer living—the sculpture reminds us of our fleeting presence in vast geological and cosmological time.
Through these allusions to the body, Tossin reminds us that all life is fleeting, and all living things inevitably return to becoming minerals as they decay into soil and clay.