Preserved Under Violence

A series of Sculptural works

Mixed Media | 2026


Newborn forms are sealed inside glass jars—held between care, preservation, and confinement.

This body of work is built around a simple image: a newborn head placed inside a glass jar.

The jars are familiar objects—used to preserve food, to store, to protect. Here, they hold something that cannot be preserved.

Each form is contained, isolated, and removed from any living context. The jar protects, but it also separates. What is inside is no longer part of the world—it is held, stored, and fixed in place.

 

The material shifts across the series. Some surfaces remain soft and flesh-like, while others harden into plaster and concrete. This movement—from softness to rigidity—marks a change in the body itself. Something that could grow or respond becomes still, resistant, and unchanging.

 

The newborn form is used here as a point of beginning. But this beginning does not unfold. It is interrupted before it can take shape.

There is no direct depiction of violence. Instead, the work holds its aftermath—something already contained, already stabilized. What remains is a suspended condition, where life is present but unable to continue.