Deer (Enduring Spirit)

This sculpted stag holds itself in a poised stillness, its alert head and lifted chest suggesting watchfulness while the grounded stance anchors it to a quiet, ceremonial presence. The body’s surface alternates between mottled, bronzed skin and a ribbed, crimson sheath that reads like both armor and exposed musculature, turning the animal into a tender hybrid of the natural and the fabricated. By inserting this tactile “garment” into an otherwise organic form, the work meditates on vulnerability—how protection can also resemble restraint—and invites us to see the wild as something increasingly curated, preserved, and altered by human hands.