Happiness

This sculptural assemblage stages an uncanny metamorphosis: a warm, polished wooden body rises like a rooted impulse, only to be interrupted by a darker, vessel-like swell that cradles three silvered heads—smiling masks that hover between chorus and conscience. The dialogue of materials is its central drama, where organic grain and cool metallic sheen set up a tension between instinct and artifice, tenderness and spectacle. Its spiraling ascent and hooked protrusions animate the negative space, suggesting both embrace and restraint, as if the figure is caught mid-transformation into a totem of collective emotion. The work reads as a compact narrative about multiplicity—how identity splits into roles, how laughter can veil unease, and how the body becomes a stage for competing inner voices.