See My Absence

Art, to me, like all things, is not a fixed entity but an event unfolding in time.

In my practice, movement is not merely displacement but a force that generates relational attunement—a resonance between material, time, and affect. My sculptural works exist in states of transformation and dissolution, where change is not a destination but an ongoing condition of being. Through automata and kinetic sculpture, these works do not merely depict movement but embody it, allowing motion itself to become a vessel of meaning.

See My Absence explores impermanence, where material dissolution becomes a temporal inscription of absence. Ice melts, shifts, and vanishes, slowly eroding the traces of presence—an ephemeral choreography of vanishing. The work does not seek to impose meaning but rather invites an embodied awareness of time slipping away, rendering loss intimate, tangible, deeply felt.

It does not offer singular messages but instead functions as conditions for experience. Movement is not merely a formal element but a medium through which intimacy is enacted—between object and observer, between presence and loss.

The fluidity of motion dissolves boundaries, turning perception into an open-ended state—vulnerable, shifting, attuned. In my work, intimacy is not simply about proximity but about the tension between touch and distance, permanence and impermanence. To witness movement is to witness change, and in change, we briefly locate ourselves in relation to what is vanishing, what is becoming.

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