Compression of Flows

Mikhail Sobolev’s Compression of Flows investigates what happens to the past as it moves into the present – and towards the future. Millennia, centuries, decades, years, months, days, hours… all this is compressed into time and becomes small grains of sand – or memories. This transformation is also one of the engines of creativity; by compressing our own experience, our life, we are able to produce a stream of creativity.

This stream, or journey through time and space, is reflected in the carefully interlocking lines of the tapered end of the piece — the stone smoothed as to give an impression of movement away from the mysterious void at the opposite end of the sculpture.

As well as stone, Sobolev also works with ceramics and wood from his workshop in Moscow, where he is also currently a member of the Union of Artists.