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ink and graphite on porcelain, clear lacquer, ss bolts and rubber, tracing paper and tape
2025
This two-metre drawing-sculpture is composed of interlocking porcelain segments. The porcelain is laboriously rolled, layered, and drawn into—between firings and again after fire. The making unfolds through sustained physical endurance, bringing the body to the brink of exhaustion and the mind to a fragile edge. This intensity of labor is not incidental but integral, inscribed into the material itself.
The resulting form remains in flux, arrested at the threshold of transformation—frozen in the moment just before becoming something else. It resists completion, holding instead a state of suspension.
Emerging from our research into Buddhist and Hindu ruins, the work reflects on how shifts in power are marked through aesthetic transformation, and how such remnants are later reimagined. Today, ruins are often romanticized as pure, sacred, and untouched by secular life, while their histories of occupation, violence, and continual change are quietly erased. This work lingers within that tension, where material, labor, and memory refuse to settle into a singular, stable form.