Self (Ascend)

This suspended, fragmented torso reads like an archaeology of the human will—flesh rendered in rough, olive clay, then interrupted by a rigid lattice of exposed armature that both sutures and restrains. The composition turns absence into presence: missing limbs and head become charged voids, while the diagonal thrust of the outstretched shoulder suggests a gesture arrested mid-flight, caught between ascent and collapse. Light grazes the scarred surface, making every gouge and thumbprint feel like a record of struggle, as though the body is being rebuilt in real time, yet never allowed to fully heal. In this tension between organic mass and skeletal scaffolding, the work stages vulnerability as a kind of architecture—support and captivity occupying the same frame.