HECATE (Triplex Anima)

> about the image:

Tria sunt lumina eius: vita, umbra, et interstitium.

(three are her lights: life, shadow, and the in-between – fragmentum apocryphum)

HECATE (Triplex Anima) reimagines the ancient theophoric goddess not as a figure but as a field of distributed presence. The grid becomes a cosmology: a fractured, recursive architecture where marble bodies splinter into hundreds of micro-gestures. In this lattice of repetition and displacement, the classical relief is no longer a narrative surface but a psychic mechanism, a site where fragmentation becomes a mode of revelation. The work draws upon Hecate’s triple form, her dominion over crossroads, thresholds, and lunar transitions. Yet the triadic body here is not depicted; it is inferred through discontinuity. Faces dissolve into torsos, serpentine forms emerge from folds of drapery, and equine limbs flicker like afterimages of Thessalian myth. What remains stable is not identity, but multiplicity: the sense that the image thinks in three directions at once. Through deconstruction and recomposition, the marble becomes porous, almost organic, as if inhabited by the anima mundi, the world-soul that animates all living forms. The mythic archive of Artemis, Diana, Hekatos, and their syncretic shadows is sublimated into a dream-logic where eros and thanatos operate simultaneously. The result is an uncanny surface, rich in pareidolic potentials: witchcraft, moonlit metamorphoses, and Freudian residues appear and vanish depending on the viewer’s position. This is not an illustration of Hecate; it is a method of thinking her. A contemporary re-inscription of the goddess into a visual system that resists linear narration. The sculptural world, so stable in its classical origin, is here subject to dissolution, recompression, and spectral echo. Heroic bodies, serpents, shields, and mythic animals fold into one another until the image becomes a threshold organism – neither sculpture nor photograph, but an experiential matrix of myth, psychoanalysis, and metamorphosis. HECATE (Triplex Anima) occupies the territory between coherence and unraveling, between magic and archaeology. It proposes that myth survives not in its stories, but in the patterns of disturbance it continues to generate.

> series statement:

FRAGMENTA DEORUM reexamines classical mythology through a contemporary process of visual decomposition and reassembly. In this series, Alexandru Crișan approaches the divine body not as a fixed icon but as a mutable structure – an image that can be dismantled, reorganized, and reanimated through the logic of the fragment. Trained as an architect, Crișan adopts an analytical method in which sculpture becomes material, symmetry becomes strategy, and the image behaves like a spatial system rather than a narrative scene. Each work operates within a field of controlled instability. Fragments of ancient reliefs, gestures, and anatomical details are multiplied and recomposed into new configurations where recognition and uncertainty coexist. These images provoke pareidolia: faces emerge where none were placed, mythic creatures surface from folds of marble, and bodies appear to oscillate between coherence and dissolution. Meaning does not reside in any single element but in the shifting relations among them. The series engages mythology as a psychological reservoir rather than a storytelling device. Echoes of Greek and Roman deities – Medeia, Hecate, Cassiopeia – are not depicted but inferred, surfacing through repetition, distortion, and dream-like recombination. This oneiric dimension aligns the work with psychoanalytic readings of the image, where memory, desire, and symbolic residue intertwine. The divine re-enters contemporary vision not as a stable figure but as an afterimage: a structure of intimation, erosion, and metamorphosis. FRAGMENTA DEORUM proposes that fragmentation is a generative force. Through decomposition, the sacred is not lost but redistributed; through recomposition, myth becomes newly legible. Each artwork stands as a contemporary relic, a threshold where architecture, mythology, and the unconscious converge. Crișan’s images reveal that the gods persist – not in their intact forms, but in the fragments through which they continue to speak.

> project page: FRAGMENTA DEORUM

> Special Large Collector’s Edition of 10, numbered from 1/10

> Format SL1 90CM, SL2 120cm, SL3 150cm on shortest edge

> “HECATE (Triplex Anima)” is available for purchase in one unique Art Limited Collector’s Edition of 10 and 2 Artist’s Proofs, in giclee archival art print at the highest museum quality standards, on Fine Art cotton paper from Hahnemuhle with pigment ink. The Collector’s Editions are certified signature editions, stamped and numbered on the back side. Additionally, as a separate document, a dedicated signed Certificate of Authenticity, with artwork title, date and edition number, indicate that you have purchased an original exclusive artwork. No further reproduction of any kind will be run after the collector edition is sold out. The prices for Special Large Collector Editions are progressive. For other detailed information’s see the section ART PRINTS.