Pepe Isla
Age: 27
Works at: Casa Isla
Qualifiers: best chocolate showpiece and best
moulded praline
Showpiece
Purity
The piece represents purity, naturalness and innate freshness with which this peculiar character unfolds, the geisha. From Asian culture, the geisha is a representation of nature, pure colours, flowers, curved forms, the sense of movement... All accompanied by key elements that have inspired me to conceive this concept. A flowering tree, a fragile bridge crossing a river with carps, a Torii marking the border between the profane and the sacred space... The piece is a celebration of nature, whose common thread is a culture, a way of life, total and direct connection to the natural world.