Eros is a sculpture built around the idea of love, but not love in a soft or decorative sense. In Greek thought, Eros is not only romance: it is desire, attraction, the force that pulls bodies, minds, and destinies toward each other. It is the spark that makes people meet, touch, obsess, create, and sometimes destroy themselves. That is the energy I wanted to bring into this piece.

I painted the sculpture in blue and pink, two colours that can suggest tenderness, flesh, intimacy, sweetness, but also contrast, polarity, and emotional tension. Over the body I added tattoos all over, turning the figure into a surface marked by experience, longing, memory, and symbolic attachment. In that sense, the sculpture is not just a representation of Eros, but a body that has already been crossed by love. The tattoos become traces of desire, like emotional scars, devotions, promises, wounds, and pleasures written directly onto the skin.

What interests me about Eros is that love is never just pure. It is beautiful, but it is also invasive. It marks people. It enters the body, changes perception, leaves signs, makes things sacred, ridiculous, erotic, painful, and unforgettable. That is why covering the figure in tattoos felt right: because love itself behaves like a tattoo. It can be chosen, suffered, celebrated, regretted, shown off, or hidden, but once it enters deeply, it stays.

So this sculpture becomes a meditation on love as inscription. Not something floating above life, but something that gets under the skin. Through the colours, the body, and the tattoos, Eros becomes both deity and evidence: the god of desire transformed into a figure that visibly carries what desire does to us.