ILLNESS – from the series Four Horsemen

The work represents the Rider Illness from the series Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

It was created from a white ceramic ring base, reshaped and polished by hand, with fragments of torn latex gloves in blue, white, and black embedded in cyanoacrylate adhesive.

As a former nurse, the artist directly experienced the fragility of bodies and the limits of care during the Covid pandemic. Latex gloves, once symbols of protection, became fragile barriers—objects that tear, fail, and remind us of the vulnerability beneath.

By sealing these fragments inside a wearable object, the piece captures a paradox: material that was meant to protect instead becomes a symbol of its own insufficiency. Illness is deliberately uncomfortable, resisting decorative beauty. It turns a simple ring into testimony of a shared reality, when sickness spread globally and the first Rider seemed to walk among us.

The Rider Illness is never absent; he continues to shape our present.