Armour Bright • 2025
Series of sculptures, walnut wood, forged steel, MDF, ink, acrylic, varnish. 90 x 90 cm
Armour Bright (2025) is a series of sculptural gate-fragments by Léa Porré that reimagines the finial—not as a crowning ornament, but as a liminal device. Traditionally perched atop sacred structures to signal protection, ascension, or power, the finial is here fragmented, multiplied, and redirected—radiating not upward, but outward in all cardinal directions. These suspended forms become radical ornaments: at once decorative and defensive, symbolic and disorienting.
Crafted from walnut wood, forged steel, MDF, ink, and acrylic, and mounted as fragmented gates upon the wall, the works act as thresholds—markers of unseen crossings between the physical and digital, the sacred and the speculative. In the imagery embedded within the wood, finials appear to fuse into eroded rock—fossilised relics suspended in time. Both the metal structures and CGI imagery echo ley lines and talismanic geometry, evoking a mythic cartography.
Armour Bright furthers Porré’s ongoing exploration of portals, fragments, mnemonic architectures, and the shifting line between ornament and force.
