Underwater (Seahorse Sculpture)

This sculptural tableau stages an improbable tenderness: a seahorse, armored in rhythmic, tile-like ridges, rises with poised vigilance while a snail anchors the base in patient, earthen calm. The soft blush of the clay—warmed by faint abrasions and hand-worked texture—sets up a dialogue between fragility and protection, as if the sea creature’s vertical ascent is counterweighted by the mollusk’s spiral devotion to ground and time. The diagonal fin-like form behind them reads as both wave and wing, suggesting movement held in suspension, a quiet allegory of companionship between speed and slowness. In its restrained palette and emphatic contours, the work becomes a meditation on how different tempos of life can share one sheltering geometry.