Ambition (Reclining Figure)

This sculptural tableau stages the human body as both shelter and weight, draped across a circular plane like a quiet verdict of exhaustion and surrender. The warm, wood-toned disc—radiating with carved striations—reads as a sun, a cross-section, or a sealed world, ruptured by a dark, star-shaped fissure that interrupts its symmetry and turns serenity into vulnerability. Against the matte, charcoal figure, the coppery field glows with tactile intensity, allowing light to skim across textures and suggest the friction between tenderness and fracture. The work ultimately feels like an elegy for resilience: a body resting atop a wounded sphere, holding it down yet also holding it together.