Upswing (A Heavy Load)

This sculptural figure advances with the quiet inevitability of a traveler, its naturalistic legs anchoring the body while the torso blooms into planar, wing-like volumes that read as both armor and instrument. Warm, burnished surfaces are incised with geometric tracery, turning the form into a map of inner logic—memory and calculation etched into matter—while the upward thrust of the stacked elements suggests aspiration tempered by weight. The work stages a tension between human vulnerability and constructed identity, as if the self is carried forward not by flesh alone but by the architectures it invents to survive and signify.