Flight without wings

Medium

Sculpture- Papier-mâché and P.O.P

Dimensions

21"H × 16"W

Year

2026

I often ask: were we ever free before the conditions of freedom existed? With that question, I created this piece. Here I present a pair of legs emerging from drapery, lifted in a gesture that suggests motion and lightness. This is how I see it: to a bird, wings are the means of boundless movement. To us, it is our legs. They carry us across borders, away from limitations, toward everything we dare to imagine. But here, legs are not only physical. They are also the decisions we make, the courage we summon, the mental resolve that moves us forward even when the body is still. I wanted the legs in this work to function as both, an anatomy of freedom that is at once bodily and deeply internal. By obscuring the body beneath drapery, I shifted attention away from the identity of the body and toward something more universal.