Porcelain, Polyvinyl Acetate

19cm x 17cm x 0.2cm

This research approaches the body as an ongoing transition rather than a stable form, attending to the ways in which degradation, collapse, and deformation register time as a material event. Deterioration is explored through the slow undoing of form, staging conditions in which solidity is continually giving way, and in which the boundary between cohesion and dispersal remains unresolved.

The body here is figured as a threshold that never quite settles, suspended between vitality and exhaustion, becoming and unbecoming. Marks of fragmentation and distortion are the very means by which the form is constituted, signalling crossings in which what once held together passes into a more uncertain configuration.The emergent forms are approached as something assembled and reassembled through these passages, accruing and losing it’s shape in liquidity, before settling it’s creases and folds through an engagement with air and a durational becoming.

A spherical volume is first established by layering liquid porcelain slip over a latex mould, then systematically compromised through successive deflations that induce creasing, collapsing, and surface fatigue. Air, its presence, depletion, and uneven release acts as a shaping agent, redistributing tension across the “skin” so that texture, thickness, and fold become indices of an ongoing loosening rather than of deliberate control.

The resulting form holds this history of diminishment in suspension, proposing mortality not as a singular moment of cessation but as a drawn out reconfiguration in which the body's boundaries are continually re-written by memory, sensation, and physical change.