Marianne Broch MRSS

I see my sculptural work as a dialogue – between the material and myself, between what has endured and what is still unfolding. Roots and trunks that have stood for centuries, shaped slowly by weather and time, carry traces that resonate with the human condition. The tough and the tender, the resilient and the vulnerable – all of it held in the wood, as it is in us.

I work outdoors, in direct physical contact with the wood. The carving is slow and attentive – a physical dialogue with the material. Layer by layer, I pare back the surface, until a form emerges. Not as an answer, but as a recognition.

The works hold no explanations. They are quiet witnesses – openings that invite us to sense, to remember what we may have forgotten: That we have roots. That we carry time in the body. That strength and vulnerability can be the same.