Soma

Materials: Trayma sculpture made with plant-based silk threads, retractable fiber, regenerated cotton, linen, and hemp; watercolor intervention; solidified with plant-based resin. Sealed with wax signature.

Concept: This sculpture, which presents itself as a banner-like object yet refuses any functional definition, a "vessel" that contains nothing but its own presence, is composed of Trayma, a fabric created by the artist, then mended, painted with watercolor, and solidified with vegetal resin. Soma explores the experience of inhabiting one's own body as a meditative and incarnated act.

In the silence of meditation there exists a rare moment, the one in which the mind finally gives way to being. It is in that inner space, where Soma becomes a threshold rather than a limit, that the work takes root. The sculpture does not represent, but welcomes the paradox of our presence: we are both matter and consciousness, weave and question.

To live oneself is not an exercise in absence, but an active labor, a continuous process of dwelling. The work invites us to recognize the now as the only authentic space of experience. In a society where every lived moment is quickly commodified, what happens when the human being calls upon their own being? When they weave, quite literally, their own reality?

The answers, if they exist, cannot be pinned down by the morality of the flesh. Do they include it? Do they transcend it? And what does empathy entail when religion dissolves into philosophy, when the spiritual gesture becomes a secular act?

There are no answers, only the possibility of inhabiting the question as one would dwell in a temple without doctrine: a place where time contracts into the pure act of being, and the body quite literally weaves its own reality.