**Bound** is a soft sculpture designed to activate transformation through performance. Rooted in the tradition of the masquerade, the work expands the concept of the mask into a full-body form that envelops the wearer, inviting them—and the audience—into a space of shifting identities. Constructed entirely by hand from yarns and strings, the garment functions as a living skin: a breathing, soft sculpture that transforms the person inside it into another being.

Through performance, **Bound** blurs the boundaries between body and sculpture, self and other. It becomes a vessel for ritual and storytelling, where every gesture and movement of the performer animates the fibers, bringing the work to life. In this activation, the sculpture does not simply clothe the body—it reshapes it, conceals and reveals it, and allows the wearer to inhabit multiple identities at once.

Even in stillness, within a gallery setting, **Bound** retains the memory of these transformations. It exists as a charged object, a sculptural form that seems to breathe and pulse on its own, inviting viewers to imagine the narratives and identities that emerge when material, body, and movement merge into a singular living artwork.

Bound

Vegetate embodies the intricate duality of its name—simultaneously evoking a state of flourishing growth and one of stillness and inertia. This soft sculpture functions both as a wearable mask and a freestanding form, blurring the boundary between presence and absence, transformation and stagnation. 

The piece captures organic movement through the tactile qualities of crochet and knitting, mimicking the slow, deliberate spread of vines or the delicate, suspended state of dormancy. Wool and mohair, chosen for their warmth and resilience, enhance the tension between vitality and stasis—between expansion and retreat. The colors are carefully curated into a palette that echoes the natural world, resembling plants as they take root and spread, intertwining growth with the quiet rhythms of stillness. Whether worn or displayed, Vegetate invites the viewer to consider the fluid nature of being: when does stillness become growth, and when does growth conceal a more profound stillness?

Vegetate

Cassiopeia is a meditation on movement, light, and transformation. Named after the ethereal jellyfish and the constellation gracing the northern sky, this piece explores the duality of fluidity and permanence, the earthly and the celestial.

With its slow, undulating drift, the Cassiopeia jellyfish embodies softness and adaptability, mirroring the healing rhythm of breath and water. In contrast, the Cassiopeia constellation, fixed in the cosmos, represents myth, endurance, and an eternal glow. Together, they reflect a tension between movement and stillness, the ephemeral and the enduring, offering a space for reflection and balance.

This piece evokes warmth and healing through its interplay of texture and color. Wool and mohair yarn create a tactile softness that invites touch, while a gradient of colors mimics the organic shifts of light seen in deep-sea creatures and distant nebulae. Tiger eye stones, known for their grounding energy, are embedded within the fibers, channeling a quiet resilience and protection.

Through Cassiopeia, the body is enveloped in a gentle, pulsating presence—an invitation to drift, glow, and heal.
  
  

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