Something that almost belongs to you

This sculpture belongs to a series of fragmented portraits of the artist’s partner’s body, in this piece the ear, created during a time of extended physical separation. A photogrammetry scan was 3D-printed in teak wood and PLA composite, then joined with cast brass fragments of the artist’s own body, two fingers and a wrist, plated in copper. Across eight months of separation, the artist turns to 3D printing as a way to re-create her partner’s presence, using technology to simulate the intimacy disrupted by distance.

The hybrid form intertwines two bodies while holding them apart, in a way that is fragile, unstable, and incomplete. The surfaces bear traces of both mechanical precision and manual craft, gestures of sanding, staining, and casting that merge robotic process with human touch. In its fractured state, the work embodies both connection and absence, intimacy and distance, existing as a physical record of longing and the tenuous ways closeness persists across separation, mediated through technology.