Into Myself (Embodied Emotions)

This compact wooden sculpture turns the human figure inward, folding body into a continuous loop where embrace and enclosure become indistinguishable. Its rounded volumes and hollowed core choreograph light and shadow as a quiet breath within matter, making negative space feel as intentional as the carved surface. The visible grain, knots, and fissures read like a lived history, suggesting tenderness that has survived pressure—an intimacy that is protective, but never entirely unguarded. Seen from different angles, the form oscillates between figure, vessel, and seed, offering a meditation on refuge, self-containment, and the cyclical resilience of being.