To Become Permeable…

This body of work begins with a desire to see what cannot be seen.

I have become increasingly preoccupied with the interior of the body, not as an anatomical space, but as a place where something less tangible might reside. The work emerges from a persistent feeling that there are parts of the self that remain inaccessible even to oneself, buried beneath the visible body and just beyond the limits of perception.

The sculptures are built through processes of expansion, compression, attachment, rupture, and distortion. Their surfaces become membranes: stretched, folded, interrupted, and opened. Cavities and openings appear within otherwise continuous forms, creating moments where the exterior gives way to the suggestion of something concealed. These interventions are not attempts to expose an interior so much as to approach the possibility of one.

I keep wondering what it would mean to become translucent enough to witness my own interior. To see through bone, memory, and selfhood. To become sufficiently open that what remains hidden might become perceptible.

Translucency becomes a useful condition for this inquiry. Unlike transparency, it does not promise complete access. It allows something to pass through while preserving its opacity. It suggests that seeing oneself may always be partial: that there are aspects of the self that can be approached, sensed, or intuited, but never fully made visible.

The tension between surface and interior therefore becomes a tension between what can be known and what remains beyond knowledge. The sculptures hold this uncertainty rather than resolving it. Their skins conceal as much as they reveal; their openings offer access without guaranteeing revelation.

At the center of the work is a longing for self-recognition: the possibility of looking inward and encountering something essential, something that might be called a soul. Not as a fixed or fully knowable entity, but as a presence felt through its absence.

To become permeable is not to become completely transparent. It is to allow oneself to be altered by what cannot yet be seen.