My soft sculptures began as extensions of the HUG, where tenderness meets tension, and intimacy is laced with ambiguity. In their early forms, they resembled oversized limbs, looping arms, or suspended embraces. Gestures that teetered between comfort and constraint. These works were at once familiar and uncanny, echoing the safety of childhood objects while carrying the psychic weight of adult emotion. There was always a dreamlike charge in their presence, playful yet quietly unsettling.

Now, this language of touch and embrace is evolving into something larger, both literally and conceptually. The limbs have grown into full-bodied, soft female forms, complete with vaginas, bringing my long-standing exploration of the feminine body into a sculptural, life-sized presence. These sewn bodies are not static representations, but charged, immersive figures that inhabit space like companions, witnesses, and provocateurs. They form the beginnings of larger installations of environments where softness becomes monumental and intimacy can feel both inviting and overwhelming.

Made from repurposed materials, these sculptures carry a lived texture. Their softness belies their complexity, each bend, curve, and fold questioning boundaries, closeness, and the paradox of care that can cradle or consume.

Through this work, I continue my exploration of the body, especially the feminine body, as a site of memory, nurture, and wisdom. Whether in the looping embrace of a limb or the grounded presence of a full-bodied form, these sculptures create a tactile language. One that speaks to what we carry, what we release, and how feeling finds its form in space.