Arrey (Senufo Scorpion Figure)

Woven from humble fiber into a creature that is part vessel, part totem, this sculptural form holds itself in a precarious balance between containment and exposure. The warm, earthen palette and tactile weave turn light into a slow caress across ridges and hollows, while the hollowed cavity reads like a private chamber—an anatomy of shelter where absence becomes the true occupant. Its horned silhouette and looping tail suggest ritual and metamorphosis, as if the object is simultaneously guarding something sacred and confessing its fragility through the openness of its frame. In the stark, neutral space around it, the work becomes an intimate monument to memory: handmade resilience poised against the void.