Reflecting within postcolonial frameworks, In An Instance is an installation composing three individual sculptures. The direction of time is informed by post-anthropocentric understandings, from the snail’s slow, meandering logic and its secreted trails. The series speaks to a sense of direction becoming unsettled when internal time misaligns with external measuring units. And the gaps it produce in one's coherence with self-identity. The project continues an ongoing discussion into nonlinear and disciplinary experiences of time.
Compass With Eyes Drawn
Plaster, polyurethane resin, alabaster, polyester fabric, steel washers, found wood furniture.
86 × 55 × 39 in
2025
Compass with Eyes Drawn borrows from the snail’s mode of perception. What appear to be a pair of tactile antennae are in fact hybrid sensory organs that integrate vision and tactility into a simultaneous form of perception, engaging the world through continuous adjustment. A protruding, fragile way of seeing kept close to the body.
This embodied vision contradicts the demand for clear definition by proceeding in the interval between the recognizable and the unrecognizable. A mode of sensing that thrives at the intimate interface where a snail’s wet body meets the world, and softens its rigid boundaries with secretions.
It turns back toward the limits of human perception. Clear sight often stands in for recognition, tying what is visible to what can be defined, and folding it into a coherent narrative. Yet perception frequently occurs at the unrecognized edges of consciousness, through the body, in parallel with the present. Despite the structuring narrative.
Bulletin
Polyurethane, steel, magnets, alabaster, found mini-fridge.
43 x 24 x 4.5 inch
2025
Enough for (two spheres)
Plaster, stainless steel, vector drawings cutouts on A4 paper.
Top: 12 × 8.5 × 9.5 in; Bottom: 8.5 × 8.5 × 5 in
2025