There is a sense of quiet awakening in this marble sculpture- as though the figure is caught at the precise moment when grounded being transforms into uplifted becoming.

The sweeping, curved forms rise like wings unfurling, their upper arcs meeting in a poised symmetry that resembles both an embrace and a flight. These curves, delicately ridged, give the impression of feathers or rippling air, a gentle suggestion that lightness is not merely physical but emotional, even spiritual.

What makes the piece arresting is the dialogue between its polished upper form and the raw, textured base. The lower half feels rooted in earth, in the roughness of lived experience, while the soaring upper portion reaches toward openness- a metaphor for how growth often requires both grounding and release.

The figure’s posture, one leg extended and another poised, echoes the grace of a dancer pushing off into space, carrying the body into a new dimension.

The sculpture feels like a meditation on inner lift- the moment when resilience becomes grace, when effort melts into ease, when the human spirit discovers its own wings. “The Winged Ascent” becomes, then, not just a form in marble, but a quiet reminder that rising is a movement that begins from within.