This sculpture reflects on the tension between figuration and abstraction. The fleshy surrogate form exposes physical properties of silicone as it carries inherent material contradictions - resilience and strength. Both silicone and steel are materials often used in the construction of humanoid robots, and here they signal a convergence of the organic and the mechanical.
As in all of my recent work, I am interested in moments of metamorphosis that resist the efficiencies of mechanization, instead invoking a poetics of resistance, vulnerability, and survival. I’m drawn to what persists beyond the machine—the animate remnants that systems often obscure but which continue to inform our understanding of self and the other.