On the threshold between girlhood and performance. A pair of feet in soft pink pumps hovers at the surface of a deep blue block, legs descending into opacity. The shoes—delicate, bow-tied, almost childlike in their softness—contrast sharply with the legs themselves, rendered in metallic teal, artificial and armored.
The sculpture captures a suspended moment: the instant before submersion, before the hardening required to navigate adult femininity. The blue cube reads as both water (sinking, depth, the unknown) and as a solid foundation being entered or consumed. The figure stands at the edge of transformation—still wearing the markers of innocence while the body below has already begun its metamorphosis into something manufactured and resilient.
Before Losing Innocence asks what is sacrificed in the transition from girl to woman, and whether that loss is inevitable or chosen. The work memorializes the pause before the fall, honoring the fragility that exists just before experience sets in.
