Artwork title : Timekeeper's Opus: The Past in the About Time Series

23 x 11 x 10 inches

Cast Bronze, Gold Leaf, Granite

ABOUT TIME: TIMEKEEPER’S OPUS (The Past) is a confident Maestra. She conducts a long gold-leafed train wildly unfurling from her own dress. The figure keeps time for the opus of what is remembered and what is recorded. Testé said, “I would argue that history - like memory - exists in first person. I saw Cooper’s ‘Maestro’ (2023) while working on this clay. Just as Bernstein embraced each masterpiece, we humans convert the past into convincing symphonies.”  TIMEKEEPER’S OPUS transforms a blurry idea into a grace note where everyone’s breath catches at once.

All three sculptures from the ABOUT TIME series feature a very deliberate compositional geometry between the figures’ attention and their billowing outsized capes.  Testé traces each swirling force with goldleaf stressing the dynamic potential of the future, present, and past.  She further connects the series with musical metaphors as titles.