The concept study started out with my usual attraction towards depicting the body. Distorting, fragmenting, or simplifying the body has consistently been my focus, through connecting it with abstract elements and capturing the essence of its movements.
I would like my final work to leave you with an element of confusion.
Is it a body?
Does it feel familiar?
Does it make me feel something deeper?
I explored the abstraction of the human body, outlining its fragility, beauty, and strength. Its pain, pleasures, and desires.
This vase is the first piece of a series work that underpins my crucial personal development as an artist. I began making sculptures based on people’s movements, as I believed it would be the only way to capture their story – the comfort or discomfort of how they live in their bodies. I started meeting with people, of all ages and genders, and explored their story through movement by taking their photographs in spaces and clothing of their preference.
This idea of meeting up with people and giving them the opportunity to “show me who you are today by moving freely” opened a door to their emotions, to show their essence as a singular being. Transforming movement into stillness became a metaphor to describe a need in today’s society to stop, feel, and reflect.
Ceramics plays an important role in the project, representing a cycle involving all elements – earth, water, air, and fire – that keep us alive, and keep us moving. Transforming an emotion or experience to a movement, and ultimately into a sculpture has been challenging, but enriching beyond description, offering a new way of seeing and living my surroundings.
I leave you here to explore these sensations with my work.
