REHEARSAL

Rehearsal is a jacket, hollowed and suspended. Below, a vase constructed from what the jacket is missing — shaped from absence, but holding. Between them, a discovery: of grounding, of another person, of something that feels like an anchor for the first time. Wax, clay, and resin layered onto silk and ceramic: materials that encase without completing, that preserve something perpetually in resolution.

To rehearse is to live in preparation for a thing that doesn't come. This work sits in that limbo, and in the charged spatial and temporal distance between two objects that were once one. Thinking through a life lived without solid ground — where my previous piece constructs shelter, this one captures stasis. Where does the self reside when it has no fixed place to land?