16.5×14 cm
By capturing the tension between resistance and transformation, a figure reaches toward a hardened presence, an earlier self shaped by the hardships of life, rigid and unyielding. The gesture is both tender and strained, as if trying to reassure and make that guarded past-self feel safe. Gold leaf traces the emergence of a new spirit shaped by the aftermath of war, clinging to and reshaping the figure. Caught between the past and the present, the figure exists in a quiet, inescapable bind.
16.5×14 cm
By capturing the tension between resistance and transformation, a figure reaches toward a hardened presence, an earlier self shaped by the hardships of life, rigid and unyielding. The gesture is both tender and strained, as if trying to reassure and make that guarded past-self feel safe. Gold leaf traces the emergence of a new spirit shaped by the aftermath of war, clinging to and reshaping the figure. Caught between the past and the present, the figure exists in a quiet, inescapable bind.