Target (Hand and Vine Sculpture)

This sculptural assemblage stages a tense dialogue between weapon and gesture: a pistol-like form is held not by an arm, but by a stylized, almost mythic hand, as if violence has been abstracted into ritual. From the grip rises a long, arcing element that behaves like a drawn bow or a tensile spine, turning the composition into a suspended act—poised between release and restraint. The dark, weathered surface absorbs light like a bruise, while the exaggerated curve carves the surrounding void into a charged field, suggesting that power is less an object than a posture we inhabit. In its uneasy balance, the work reads as a meditation on control—how aggression can be engineered into elegance, and how elegance can disguise coercion.