“Finding Yourself” is a powerful sculptural metaphor of the inner journey toward freedom and self-recognition. Created during the final phase of the artist’s SEARCH period, this work embodies the moment just before a breakthrough — when the longing for liberation is still projected outward, yet already deeply rooted within.
The sculpture depicts a horse bust, carrying within it a female figure in flight. The woman appears to be emerging from the body of the horse, her arms extended, dissolving into the horse’s lines. Her hands are not formed — a conscious artistic choice that reflects the incomplete sense of freedom the artist was experiencing at that time. It is as if liberation is close, almost tangible, but not yet fully embodied.
Throughout Elisaveta Sivas’ artistic life, the image of the horse and the flying female figure has been a recurring symbol. For her, the horse represents an inner impulse toward freedom, power, and movement beyond limitations. In this sculpture, the woman and the horse exist simultaneously as one unified form and as two independent beings — echoing the tension between attachment and release, dependence and autonomy.
At the time of creating this work, the artist believed that freedom would arrive once something external was completed — once the “hands” were formed, once the flight was fully realized. Later, she came to understand that true freedom is not an escape outward, but an inner release: a liberation from inner blocks, survival patterns, and nervous system tension. Seen from today’s perspective, “Finding Yourself” captures that threshold moment — the last questions before truth revealed itself.
Sculptural, expressive, and deeply symbolic, this piece stands as a culmination of the SEARCH period — a visual record of the artist’s sincere and vulnerable inquiry into self, freedom, and inner truth.
Collection SEARCH — a rare and completed chapter This sculpture belongs to SEARCH, a rare and deeply personal body of work created during Elisaveta Sivas’ profound artistic and spiritual evolution between 2016 and 2022.
Each work in the series represents a form of self-inquiry — an exploration of freedom, identity, love, and the human longing for wholeness. Created before the artist’s spiritual awakening, these sculptures document an inner journey that has now been completed.
The SEARCH series will never be continued or recreated. Each piece is a unique collector’s artifact, marking an unrepeatable chapter in the artist’s life and practice.
