In Africa, I had worked on modelling the human skull but had not considered that clay shrinks between % and % when drying. My skull had become that of a child! I first tried to glue large ears on it (as the Dogon people say that the dead listen), but it was dreadful. It looked like Dumbo. In the end, I modelled the pointed nose of Pinocchio and that ended up working. Someone once told me that the nose was the lie that remains after death. - Miquel Barceló

En Afrique j’avais modelé un crâne humain mais je n’avais pas pensé que l’argile rétrécit entre et % en séchant. Mon crâne était devenu un crâne d’enfant! J’ai essayé d’abord de lui coller de grandes oreilles (les dogons disent que les morts écoutent) mais c’était affreux, on aurait dit Dumbo. A la fin j’ai modelé le nez pointu de Pinocchio et ça a marché. Quelqu’un m’a dit que ce nez c’est le mensonge qui reste après la mort.