from the serie 1 "Vox clamantis"
« In the humble vessel of a bottle, the artist seals his message - & he can only then entrust it to the unknown, to the infinitely unpredictable ocean. Whether the bottle arrives on a distant shore, whether it is perceived as significant, seized, scrutinized, & almost sanctified like an epiphany - or whether it sinks during its journey, whether it approaches some rocky confines and is swallowed up like a scrap or a rebus - this is something that absolutely escapes the artist. And yet, tirelessly, in time & against time, braving despair by the candor of his faith, the artist works, still & still - for his heart cannot fail the day. And launches a new message, a new bottle to the sea. By his silent allegory, worthy of our childish reveries in the tropics of the awakening, here is that Piret reveals us at the same time the fundamental humility of the artist, his twisting suffering, & more still his irreducible nobility - Vox clamantis in oceano... » MMdC