TheWave
2026
Mahogany, Steel, Glass
N° 033 / 033
A wave does not rise to stay. It rises to pass through — and what it leaves behind is the memory of its passage.
The Wave is the only piece in the studio that moves sideways. Where the standing figures reach upward against gravity, this one extends outward along the horizon, a surge of mahogany held in suspension between a dark steel frame and a plane of glass. The wood is carved as a single gesture — two limbs crossing at an angle that could be collision or embrace, the grain following the current rather than cutting across it.
The light does not sit on top of the piece. It runs along it. A line of warmth embedded in the wood travels the length of the rising limb, reflects off the underside of the glass, and falls in a soft pool onto the floor below. The steel holds everything still so the wood can move. The glass lets you see through to the structure that would otherwise be hidden.
The Wave is about the moment a force is arrested mid-sentence — held, transparent, and already beginning to recede.
N°01Studio note
Alberto Palomino — Montréal, August 2026
The Wave was the first piece I built horizontally, and it changed how I think about the work. The mahogany is carved as one continuous current — two limbs that cross without resolving their relationship, the grain running the direction the form wants to travel. I chose steel for the frame because a horizontal gesture this long needs something that refuses to bend, something industrial and quiet that lets the wood be the only thing in motion. The glass was the last decision and the most important: it makes the structure legible from above, turns the interior into part of the sculpture, and catches the light so the glow reads as travelling rather than sitting still. The integrated strip runs along the rising limb and reflects back down through the glass — the light is moving even when everything else is held.