Soulagement

Soulagement is more than a vertical mass. The work generates a spatial field around itself. It compels the viewer to move, to seek passages between the fragments, to examine the points of contact and register the scale of the whole. It cannot be understood from a single viewpoint; it calls for movement around it. The elements appear stacked in a state of risk. Some overhang; others seem ready to slide or to bear more weight than they can sustain. Yet nothing falls. This uncertain stability keeps the eye alert. Tension does not reside in the object alone; it is transmitted to the person looking at it. Relief arrives when one understands that the whole will hold. It removes neither the weight nor the threat of collapse. Instead, it opens a breath within the pressure. The work moves from an experience of compression towards an experience of presence.