

This compact sculpture compresses the human figure into a sealed, inward posture, its polished black surface absorbing light like a private grief that refuses spectacle. The body is cinched between rough wooden blocks and protruding metal rods, a tense architecture of restraint that turns vulnerability into a kind of engineered silence. Seen across multiple angles, the work reads as both devotional relic and forensic objectβwhere tenderness is not absent, but held under pressure, asking how much of the self is shaped by protection and how much by confinement.







