Precarity

This sculpture explores the feeling of holding back an inevitable loss — a moment suspended between hope and collapse. Yet the heaviness of that loss is softened when framed as part of a playful game, one that can be reset, reattempted, and approached with a new strategy. In that spirit, games become more than entertainment; they’re a rehearsal space for social learning, for testing boundaries without real-world consequence.

What fascinates me is the tension of that in-between — the pause just before the fall, the uncertainty of whether it will hold. It’s a universal feeling, one that carries vastly different emotional weights depending on context. This piece holds space for that tension.

I’m also drawn to the contradiction of working in bronze — a material so often associated with permanence — to capture a subject rooted in fragility and impermanence. That irony is part of what compelled me to make this work.

Technically, the sculpture consists of 52 solid-cast blocks, true to the original game. It was built in many welded components, and achieving the precise balance became its own puzzle — one that occupied my welding table for months.