Materials: galvanized iron, resinMeasures (cm): 25 x 24 x 11Year: 2025
Clypeas is a body of work inspired by my childhood memories of finding sea dollars along the shore. Fragile, flat, and often half-buried in sand, they always felt like quiet treasures, reminders of the ocean’s silence and calm. In this series, I translate those memories into wire and resin, creating delicate discs where spines radiate outward like suns, shields, or fossilized echoes. Each piece is a meditation on stillness, fragility, and the hidden strength that lies beneath the surface.
These works carry the rhythm of the sea, but also the rhythm of my own life as an artist. Growing up close to the ocean taught me that silence can hold power, and that fragility can become resilience. Clypeas reflects that balance, protective yet vulnerable, calm yet alive. They are artworks shaped by memory, nature, and time, made to bring a sense of grounding and quiet strength into the spaces they inhabit.
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About The Artist
Racso Jugarap A self-taught artist from the Philippines who has always been fascinated with creations. Growing up to be the youngest son of a jewelry crafter, Racso had already been exposed and seen playing with the tools in his father’s workshop, creating toys, or making a very intricate school project. Later on, while studying Hospitality Management, he had already been commissioned to do pieces for hotels and business establishments.
He was given an opportunity to travel around the world working as a chef and to see the beauty, energy, and culture the world has to offer. Now living in Belgium and having to experience firsthand how art has been part of most of the people's lives, this inspired him to share his art to the public that has been kept hidden for so long. Curves have been always an element in his works. For him, curve shapes express fluid movement and it could be dynamic. It depends on how much the curve is in the object, the less curve the calmer.