Journey (A Perilous Journey)

This sculptural vessel reads like a contemporary ark: a dark, bird-headed boat cradling a dense crowd of hand-painted figures whose individuality is preserved even as they are compressed into collective fate. The cool, matte hull—scarred with marks and rivet-like punctuations—contrasts with the warmer flesh and fabric tones above, while heavy chains drape the sides as both ballast and metaphor, suggesting captivity, debt, or the weight of history. Space becomes psychological rather than literal; the figures stand shoulder-to-shoulder in a precarious stillness that evokes migration, survival, and the uneasy ethics of passage. The work’s quiet drama lies in this tension between care and confinement, turning a simple journeying form into a charged meditation on who is carried, who is counted, and what it costs to cross.