This project was created during an art residency at Centro Negra (the village of Blanca, Spain).

Inspired by the concept of impermanence and the local context of Blanca (originally named Negra, it adopted an opposite name with the arrival of Christianity), I created a series of sculptures — "broken hearts." As a migrant in a perpetual search for home, during meditation I felt a connection to the collective pain of the Moriscos — Moors who, after the Reconquista, were forced to convert, secretly preserved their traditions, but were ultimately expelled from the lands where they had lived for eight centuries.

The mysticism of Sufism and its parallels with Buddhism also left a deep impression on me (nearby Andalusia was one of the centers of this movement). Particularly the metaphor often used by Sufi poets: the heart as a vessel, a receptacle for the divine. The sculptures are executed in the style of Andalusian ceramics; I "integrated" pieces of antique tile found by me in the Morisco quarter, which remains abandoned to this day.