Embodiment is a series (part of my MFA) of figurative, partially abstracted clay polyptychs in the making that examines bodily “world-relations” through posture and contact. Each work stages a distinct mode of being—lying, kneeling, standing—so that gravity, weight, and the trust (or rupture) of the ground become the primary dramaturgy. In dialogue with Hartmut Rosa’s account of how ontological security begins “on our feet” and how touch operates as a responsive interface between self and world (Rosa, 2019, pp. 47–52), the figures treat surface, pressure, and deformation as records of encounter rather than mere form. Planned as interdisciplinary installations, each polyptych extends beyond sculpture into a spatial situation in which touch, proximity, and groundedness are experienced as conditions for resonance rather than as illustrative themes.
Here some preliminary photographs of completed pieces and work in progress.
satyre
TITLE: satyre, MATERIAL: stoneware clay with different clay slips and oxids, HEIGHT: approx 70cm, YEAR: 2026
floating I
TITLE: floating I, MATERIAL: buff clay with red spray paint, LENGTH: approx 28cm, YEAR: 2025
birth
TITLE: birth, MATERIAL: earthenware clay, naked, approx SIZE: 48cm, YEAR: 2025
abstractions I and II of birth | negative space
TITLE: negative I & 2, clay, glaze, SIZE: approx A4, YEAR: 25/26