Tethered to the Abyss

Year : 2016
Dimension : 38 × 14.5 cm (Height × Depth)
Weight : 615 grams
Edition Size : Unique piece
Base Price : Sold
Artist : Mahmood Rafati
Material : Charred natural wood, metal chain, polished metal base
Technique : Sculpting with charred natural wood to convey a sense of erosion and collapse, incorporating metal chains as a conceptual element to express inner conflict and dependency

A withered, scorched figure bound in chains, rising from a cold, industrial base—its limbs like barren branches, unable to bear again. Chains hang from its form, not to support, but to drag it downward. *Tethered to the Abyss* captures the human spirit consumed by addiction—its collapse slow, silent, yet irreversible. Not a lament of death, but a record of a forgotten life.