Broken, Whole, Still Here

2024

Wire Mesh, Gauze Sponges, Plaster, Gesso, And Wood Glue

180*40*40 cm

"Broken, Whole, Still Here" is a sculpture that speaks to collective endurance. Constructed into two cones (serving as a metaphor for the passage from stability to transcendence, from grounding to aspiration), the work reflects the fragmented realities we inhabit: realities marked by loss, disruption, and a healing process that never guarantees a return to a former whole.

The gaps, torn edges, and plastered surfaces are not flaws, but rather markers of experience, traces of what has been endured. And still, the form persists: upright, solid, undeniable. This resilience is not about perfection or restoration, but about reassembly, of lives, identities, and communities shaped as much by what was broken as by what survived.