

This sculptural creature coils into itself like a living talisman, its arched body forming a near-complete circle that frames a radiant, gear-like core—part jewel, part mechanism, suggesting the meeting of instinct and engineered time. The mottled, stone-like skin is interrupted by ornate bands of patterning, as though memory and ceremony have been inlaid onto the animal’s spine, turning the body into a carrier of coded histories. With its head lowered in a gesture that reads as both reverence and burden, the work balances playfulness with gravitas, proposing that power is not always upright—it can be cyclical, inward, and quietly devotional.