The sculptural work is Time the evading adversary? was created after having stumbled upon a peculiar piece of driftwood at a friend’s studio. I pondered at length on its surface that water, other objects and sunlight degraded over a long period of time, slowly sculpting the wood as if some primordial entity was at play in the river where this piece of wood was found.

Can we bring back that which is eroded, that which is lost? What forces tether us ot our past? The process of remembrance is deeply rooted in our tenuous and devastating relationship with the world, in how we process and commemorate the passage of time through various means such as spiritual rituals, oral traditions, philosophical musings, and artistic expressions. Notions of transcendence and remembrance nest within spirituality.

I wondered if Time and its passage could be conveyed by re-orchestrating matter. By molding the surface of the wood with Japanese paper using a direct molding technique that I developed, various fibers gathered from once living organisms which were pulped to create sheets of paper are now deformed and laminated to give structural integrity to this vessel, this shell, which rests delicately on the driftwood like a diaphanous, ghostly, ethereal companion.