At her last exhibition, she named the sculpture era THE HEART, the center, the core from which everything emanates. Its beat is like that of drums hammering out raw energetic rhythms of life force. The pulse generates an unlimited diversity of shapes and moods.

For Bergonzi, metal sculpting is like harnessing the beat of the heart, as a vital creative force flows from her into the raw material as she shapes and endows it with life. The constraints and danger of welding, with its capacity to burn, cut, and strike back, require from her an intense, trance-like, focus.