Unseen Precipice, 2026
Wood, distressed fabrics and Plaster of Paris
145 cm x 70 cm x 53 cm
Artist’s Statement
Unseen Precipice navigates the delicate threshold between presence and hesitation, where perception shifts from passive looking to an embodied encounter. The work emerges from a sustained practice of “the art of noticing”, developed during walks along the beach, where a found branch became part of an exercise in finding the beauty within the mundane and easily overlooked.
The piece begins not as an object, but as a way of seeing – registering what is already present but often goes unnoticed until one slows enough to feel it. At its core, the work stages a precipice felt rather than seen: a tension of risk, hesitation, and crossing. Although permission to touch the artwork is implied, the viewer is met with uncertainty – the fear of damage, the delicacy of materials, and the ethical negotiation of interaction. This internal conflict becomes part of the work, positioning hesitation as a generative space where meaning forms.
The installation brings together soft, distressed fabrics with the hardness of wood and plaster shards, creating a suspended instability between fragility and resistance. These materials hold the work in a constant state of tension. When touched, the work responds: plaster and fabric shift, sway, and rotate, altering the composition in real time. Meaning is no longer visual alone, but formed through contact, movement, and bodily presence. Hesitation becomes active, and touch introduces a silent connection between artist, object, and interactor. Each gesture traces another’s presence, forming an unseen network of shared contact – an embodied archive of human connection beyond language.
