Touch

Two stylized birds lean toward one another in a suspended arc of intimacy, their rounded, lacquer-dark bodies catching sparse highlights that make the silence between them feel charged and tender. The composition hinges on a near-kiss—beaks hovering at the threshold—while the rough, earthlike texture of their legs and tails grounds the gesture in something ancient and bodily, as if affection must rise from labor and weathering. Set against a void, the figures become a small, self-contained cosmos where closeness is both shelter and risk, and the warm base reads like a quiet altar to companionship. The work’s tension between polished sheen and corroded surface suggests love as a dual state: radiant in perception, scarred in practice, yet steadfast in its return.