Cage (Inner Growth)

This sculptural form rests like a weathered seed-pod or fossilized loaf, its swollen mass split by deliberate fissures that read as both scars and breathing seams. From these cracks, a small congregation of organic protrusions rises—part mushroom, part bone—suggesting life insisting on emergence from what appears inert, even burdened. The burnished, earth-toned surface holds light softly, turning decay into a kind of quiet radiance, while the stark plinth and wall sharpen the sense of a specimen offered for contemplation. In its tension between shelter and eruption, the work becomes an allegory of regeneration: tenderness nested inside rupture, growth articulated through fracture.