Kiln formed glass

36cm x 33cm x 36cm

This kiln-formed glass work articulates the body as a mutable threshold rather than a stable container, a site where enclosure and exposure are co-produced rather than opposed. Abstracting the ribcage into a choreographing structure, it figures protection as a contingent arrangement of forces, of holding, filtering, admitting.

Glass becomes a medium for examining this instability: a material in which defence and permeability continually fold into one another, so that guarding an interior is inseparable from letting the world in. The work stages an embodied negotiation, asking how forms of shelter might stay responsive to what they receive, and how vulnerability might be understood as a mode of ongoing relation rather than a simple state of exposure.