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The Flower Child series explores the relationship between human life and the natural world while reimagining the doll portrait through the weight and permanence of cement. Each piece pairs a cast concrete face of a child with delicately hand-formed porcelain flowers and leaves, suggesting both fragility and resilience. Concrete—a material central to Bonfanti’s practice—embodies heaviness, grit, and endurance, serving as a metaphor for the foundations of life and the structures upon which identity is built. From the cracks and ruptures in these forms, flowers emerge, transforming sites of fracture into openings for growth and renewal. Each child figure becomes both blank slate and vessel, layered with the influences of nature, nurture, and cultural forces that shape identity and potential.

In the Heavy Heads series Bonfanti manipulates and assembles toys and children’s objects which he combines with other found objects and concrete molds to create one-of-a-kind sculptures. The standard heads represent a universal model for the urban dweller, with the distortion referring to his or hers perception of daily pressures and stress.

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