The Mechanics of Fragility
Interdependent Systems
Material Friction
The Mechanics of Fragiliy is a large-scale, site-responsive installation that operates as an interdependent ecological and psychological system. Every element—suspended in mid-air or held under high physical stress—is connected to the next, creating a delicate, precarious equilibrium where the failure of one component threatens the collapse of the whole.
Non-Binary Spatialities
The work investigates the dualities of gender, identity, and power through the deliberate juxtaposition of opposing material vocabularies. Heavy industrial elements—industrial saw blades, steel springs, ratchet straps, chains, and hammers—collide with ephemeral, domestic, and vulnerable mediums, including burning candles, blooming lilies, pearls, porcelain, and silks. This friction exposes the socially constructed hierarchies embedded in materials: the rugged and the fragile, the aggressive and the tender, the structural and the ornamental.
Embedded within the glass panels are words etched from official government restrictions—a selection of terms censored or banned under the Trump administration (such as diversity, women, vulnerable, LGBTQ, and social justice 1 2 3). By literalizing linguistic erasure onto fragile transparent surfaces, the installation bridges physical and political suppression.
By staging this tension within a self-balancing architectural web, the installation re-evaluates the vectors of identity, vulnerability, and resilience. It asks the viewer to consider how systems of social justice, personal narrative, and institutional space are constantly held together by fragile acts of negotiation, demanding careful calibration between force and grace.