My work is a meditation on the human predicament of embodiment—being simultaneously more than a body and yet confined to a body that is in a constant state of decay. My personal experience with chronic illness is at the root of this conflict. It is the desire to hold onto the finite frame that contains us. Embodiment speaks of the concrete, physical, visible being that we see as a person—the shell. There is more to a person than the physical, but our mode of existence is contingent on our physical frames. I struggle to rectify the contradiction that we think of and value our bodies as strong protectors of our interior selves and yet our physical forms are fragile and delicate husks susceptible to being incapacitated from an invisible, interior imbalance.

The materials I use—porcelain, rope, yarn, and wax—are integral to this exploration. Each holds an inherent contradiction: porcelain is both strong and fragile; rope and yarn are flexible yet capable of tension and entanglement; wax is malleable, impermanent, and sensitive to its environment. I manipulate these materials into abstracted forms that reference the body. These forms often appear in states of stress or collapse, suspended between holding themselves together and falling apart. They echo the precarious balance of the body as both container and contained, resilient yet on the verge of failure. In their tension and fragility, the materials become metaphors for embodied experience—structures under strain, reaching for coherence within inevitable entropy.