Sculptures
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Just like the drawings, the sculptures would also be a document of how I observe my own body in the time of COVID-19. The first sculpture I made is all about the quarantine made by polymer clay. I barely go out of my room, living my life in this comfort cage. The life that I enjoyed for the last six months has suddenly changed. There is an invisible force pushing me down, crushing both mentally and physically. The figure would present itself in crushed stage, reduced into smaller sized human, unable to get out of the cage that cannot be seen. I am sure there is no harm in stretching out of this cage. Yet the figure continues to pinned itself down hiding from the world with fear that its body might not be the same after a wrong choice.
I intended to make this as a series of transformation of my mentality through out the pandemic.
The more I observe my body the more I realise what has been changed. My arm would go numbs every morning by the way I sleep. I would curled my arms up and the blood is getting harder to circulate. The comfortable pain that has happened for a long time but has just been realised now that I spent more time observing.
