The Taste of Absence | 2025
the trick is… instead of thinking there is a tangerine here… you need to forget that there isn’t one. The important thing is that you have to really want one.” — burning based on Haruki Murakami”s short story “Barn Burning”
There is a moment when desire fills the space left by absence, where what is longed for becomes almost tangible—not because it exists, but because the wanting itself takes form. This sculpture captures that fleeting space between having and imagining, the illusion of touch and the reality of emptiness.
The figure’s gesture is tender yet deliberate, as if cradling something unseen, something remembered or hoped for. Her expression suggests an inward gaze, a silent knowing that what she holds is not there, and yet, in the way her fingers curve, in the way her body leans into the moment, it exists. In this quiet tension, the sculpture speaks not only of loss, but of the ability to conjure, to transform absence into something almost—almost—real.
