Original artwork
Bronze sculpture — patina finish

This bronze sculpture by Galina Stetco echoes the meaning of Soulmate, capturing the purity of a bond untouched by judgment — the bond that belongs to childhood. A young child bends toward a fish in a gesture of tenderness and instinct, touching the other without fear, without social codes, without boundaries.

Galina explores inclusion through the eyes of a child, an age before the norms of society take over, where curiosity and gentleness outweigh difference. The fish becomes a familiar presence, a quiet friend, a possible mirror of the self.

Through her sensitive handling of bronze, the artist offers a moment suspended between poetry and humanity, reminding us of who we once were: open, spontaneous, ready to recognize a soulmate in what the adult world later calls “other.”