He stands before a hollow
line without flesh, shadow without source.
His image lingers in carved air—
recalled, erased, reformed.
He does not pose; he simply pauses,
seeing himself not whole, but splintered
caught between form and void.
He feels the hush between body and trace,
between presence and absence.
From silence and nature, something speaks
not in language, but in rhythm.
The work breathes slow, unresolved
like the trace of a path once walked, now vanished.
This sculpture evokes the dislocation and reflection inherent in diaspora. The wall stands like a silent sentinel—timbered, textured, and carved with deliberate abstraction. Embedded within its surface is the hollowed silhouette of an Anthropocene man: fragmented, elusive, distilled to the essence of form. This imprint is less a figure than a void. An absence shaped by the weight of human impact and ecological rupture.
The figure stands in silent dialogue with its absent double. This encounter defies reflection; it is a confrontation, a reckoning.
The work speaks to the psychic and bodily ruptures that shape diasporic existence; where belonging is unsettled and the self is continually negotiated through distance, rhythm and memory.
Here, absence is active. Presence is partial. And between them lies a charged terrain; of loss, of longing, and of enduring resilience.
Refraction
