Anigav
Anigav originated from a dream I experienced as a teenager and never forgot. In the dream, a feminine opening appeared surrounded by sharp needle-like forms arranged as a cage. The image remained with me for years, long before I understood its meaning. Only later did I recognize it as a reflection of the tensions that often accompany the transition from childhood to womanhood: desire and fear, freedom and control, protection and confinement.
The work explores how the body can become a place onto which society, family, culture, and personal anxieties project expectations. The cage-like structure at the center symbolizes both protection and restriction. What is intended to safeguard can also imprison. What is meant to preserve innocence can sometimes create distance from one's own nature.
At the same time, the work is not about victimhood. The crystalline interior represents an inner self that remains intact beneath external pressures and inherited fears. The surrounding layers unfold like petals, geological strata, or protective membranes, suggesting a process of growth and self-realization. The white flower emerging above the composition symbolizes transformation—the moment when what has been hidden begins to reveal itself.
Created through layers of resin, crystals, minerals, and sculptural elements using my self-developed resin deformation technique, Anigav reflects my ongoing interest in the relationship between the visible and the invisible, the personal and the universal. While rooted in a specific dream, the work ultimately asks a broader question: how do we transform the structures that confine us into the very foundations from which we grow?
