The sculpture titled GILL discusses the theme of bogs and the mythology associated with them. This project deals with the topic mainly in the Czech context. This is a subjective visualization of a mythical character, the shepherd Gill. This figure appears in the regional myology of Silesia, specifically in the area of the Golden Mountains. The main source was a collection of local mythology: JOHANADIS Sotiris, Rejvíz a báje z okolí, Rejvíz. 1999. This myth describes the story of the young shepherd Gill and his subsequent curse. This shepherd is associated in myth mainly with the theme of disrespect for donated food and the subsequent curse. Gill is cursed to eternal misery in the moors and is forbidden anyfood or comfort. Thus, the main motifs of this figurative sculpture became primarily: hardship, starvation, exclusion, the theme of the landscape, physical distortion and constant movement and disappearance. The sculpture tries to reflect his human vocation and at the same time fatal sin in the morphology of the sculpture itself. Also the transition of his body marked by a curse (suffering) and at the same time merging with the dead “bodies” of the peat. This fusion is driven by the fact that large areas of bogs have been purposefully drained and mined. This figure can be part of the excavated mass that has disappeared from the landscape and at the same time metaphorically remind the disappearing folklore from these areas under the pressure of modern times.
