Held in Flux

2026

Clay, Jesmonite AC100, translucent silicone, silicone pigment

140 × 70 cm

This work constructs a skin-like surface that oscillates between scar tissue, vascular pathways, and the close-up topography of skin. Built from clay and covered through successive poured layers of Jesmonite AC100 and translucent silicone, the panel develops as a bodily membrane: stretched, uneven, sealed in some places and opened in others. Its elongated channels and raised ridges suggest both internal circulation and traces left by drying, pressure, or abrasion.

Blue silicone gathers in cuts, slits, and exposed openings across the surface, introducing moments that read as wound, seepage, or interior matter briefly coming into view. Thin metal elements appear like sutures or provisional repairs, holding together a surface that seems at once vulnerable and resistant. Because of the silicone's fluidity, it settles differently across the work, thinning over protrusions and thickening in recessed areas, so that the surface records touch, pressure, and minor acts of erosion.

Rather than presenting the body as a stable image, the work approaches skin as an unstable threshold: a site where containment and exposure, injury and repair, surface and depth remain in continuous negotiation.