Gesso Cocteau | Bronze Sculptures & Fine Art

New Sculpture 'FOREVER'

Forever is a turning point, a moment in my work where the sculpture no longer carries the weight of a base. After years of grounding each figure in bronze foundations, I longed to let them go, to let them stand in their own balance and grace. In this limited edition of twelve, Forever captures the quiet endurance of love and the courage to rise unbound. Each piece, hand finished in bronze, becomes a timeless ode to freedom, poise, and devotion a piece of art that stands just as surely as the spirit it represents.

Independence

This sculpture stands freely, embodying the elegance of self-support and the beauty of a form that finds its own balance and grace.

Timeless Endurance

Crafted to last for generations, this piece is a testament to enduring art that will remain timeless through the ages.

Display Your Way

Whether placed on a pedestal or left to stand alone, this sculpture offers the freedom to display it in the way that best suits your space and style.

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WITH ONE BREATH

The hands in clay, from fire to bronze casting two souls 'With One Breath.'

I am an artist driven by passion. I only sculpt to manifest ideas and emotions that have to do with a devotion to ecstasy and love. One of my favorite pastimes is to look at people or photos of people who are experiencing a human and soulful connection with another person. The sensuous world provides the artist with a vocabulary forged by the most common human experience … love.

In the piece “With One Breath" I wanted to create a balance of need, want, desire and rest. When we love another person with trust, there is a place where the two of you can go to let go of the world and be in your own private domain. This landscape of the love created between two people woven with trust and faith becomes the fortress to keep that love nourished. When you find yourself in this protected and alluring harbor it is almost as though you only have one heart, one breath.

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MOONDANCE

Forged from fire a visual poem ‘Moondance’.

Moondance represents love’s contrasting forces. A paradoxical experience of love’s gravity and levity. When I started to sketch this sculpture, my idea was to manifest the dance of affection and attachment through figures intertwined in a movement that choreographs the sublimity of shared human experience.

My hope is that Moondance can be a dialogue with the viewer of the dynamics of love, its capacity to anchor us to the most profound aspects of our being while simultaneously liberating us from earthly constraints. I wanted Moondance to embody the transparency and lightness of a genuine connection, illustrating the rise and fall of human emotions. This sculpture is my way of finding and trying to understand the intricate and transformative interactions of human connection – a nuanced, yet deeply passionate exploration into the dance of love.

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THE JOURNEY

Immortal love is 'The Journey' never ending.

Anais Nin wrote in her diary, “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, and other souls.” With my piece, ‘The Journey’ I realized that whenever we reach out to another person in an intimate way we are beginning a journey. It is an invitation to share our love our passion and our hope. We may even get lost with this person on our journey, but sometimes we find new paths of passion that would not have been discovered without getting lost. I have learned in loving that at times you just stand still with that person and that becomes the journey. To linger is to suggest that it is not the destination or some perfect place you are trying to arrive with your love, but the moment of realization that you are with that person you desire to spend time with. In this way your stillness becomes the direction of your affection.

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I began making bronze sculpture and writing poetry as a way to reflect my own life's journey. There is always a correlation between my individual sculptures and my poetry.

"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you, I am here to live out loud."

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October 24, 2025

Before the Bronze: The Shape of Forever

In the language of clay, love is never still,it keeps forming us, endlessly, into Forever. Forever (for the Viking) In the beginning, there was only clay and breath,the quiet surrender between two forms learning how to be one.Every curve, every reach, remembers touch,not the touch that ends, but the kind that begins againeach time one heart leans toward another. I call this Forever because it carries the weight of love that has no edge,no border between body and spirit, giver and receiver.It is the moment before bronze,when the pulse of creation is still visible,alive beneath the fingertips that shaped it. Here, they stand,not as man and woman, not even as figures,but as the echo of devotion itself.A reminder that love is never still;it keeps forming us, over and over,until we recognize ourselvesin the arms of another. — Gesso Cocteau This is Forever in the foundry completed in clay and before the mold is made. I will post the piece when it is completed in Bronze.

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July 29, 2025

True Love

True Love “Make me immortal with a kiss.” — Christopher Marlowe There are moments as an artist when creation feels less like invention and more like revelation, as if the piece already exists in another realm and you are simply the vessel pulling it through.True Love came to me in such a way. Two forms entwined, not just in body, but in essence, suspended, weightless, eternal.I thought of the Marlowe line: “Make me immortal with a kiss.”And I understood.Some kisses are not between lipsthey are between lifetimes.I wrote this poem as an invocation of that fire. True Love (for Carl) Make me immortal,not with words,but with the wayyour hands erasethe boundary of my skin.We are already myth,two bodies forgedin the same crucible of need,the same molten breaththat shaped the stars.You lift me into youas if gravity were only a rumortold by thosewho have never touched eternity.Kiss me,and let deathfind us fused,still burning. Poetry and Image© Gesso Cocteau

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July 22, 2025

The Scent of Jasmine and Ash

The Scent of Jasmine and Ash (a love remembered across lifetimes at Angkor Wat) I was not born, I was remembered. Pulled from fury. My face shaped in the breath before time, where someone once spoke my name and even the statues turned. He did not remember me, standing beneath the South Gate where gods and demons still drag time like rope through the mouth of the world. But I remembered him. I walked barefoot through the ruins of what were. The dust rose like incense around my ankles, as if the earth was trying to hold me still. He had loved me here once, called me light, called me danger, then vanished like a name washed from stone. I entered the chambers where silence lives. The walls did not speak, but they opened. A thousand faces carved in stone looked away as I stepped into the memory. There was something in his gaze, like a note from a forgotten song still echoing in the body. He didn’t know why his hands reached for mine but I did. I have carried him through centuries, his many names his many mouths all of them living in the hollow beneath my ribs. I forgave him not as mercy but as fire: a temple lit by what endures. When he turned and asked if he knew me, I said only: ‘I remember you’. I did not stay, I never do. My raven told me, “The stones have already taken you in, carving your name where no one can ever erase it.” And now, the tiger watches from the shadows as the wind moves like breath against the skin of our past. Poetry and Image© Gesso Cocteau

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New Sculpture 'FOREVER'

Bronze Collection

Life Size Sculpture

Table Top Sculpture

Mid Size Sculpture

WITH ONE BREATH

MOONDANCE

THE JOURNEY

BOOKS, DRAWINGS AND BLOG

BOOKS

DRAWINGS

BLOG

Blog Posts

Before the Bronze: The Shape of Forever

True Love

The Scent of Jasmine and Ash

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