Year of Work: 2025

Suspended mixed media sculpture

Dimensions: 120×90×37cm

In this wall-mounted sculpture, four cardboard volumes are coated in slate chippings and acrylic medium, creating the illusion of heavy gravel suspended in unstable formation. The work suggests a moment frozen mid-impact—a rally interrupted.

The tennis balls, broken punch glass and pearl necklace were donated by Dorien. Tennis represents play, repetition and competition; the punch glass recalls childhood gatherings at her parents’ home; the pearl necklace belonged to her late mother. Though meaningful, these objects no longer serve their original roles. The pearl strand—an inheritance once preserved—now hangs in tension, neither worn nor discarded.

One tennis ball is covered in cartoonish plastic eyes, intensifying the sense of being watched and destabilized. It remains unclear whether the ball’s force shattered the glass. The work embodies imbalance and the fragility of control: objects circulate through our lives, but they do not stabilize us. They move, break, inherit memory—and shift beyond our grasp.