The mind creates both the beauty we long for and the pain we try to outrun. It takes courage to face all of it. That courage is a skill, and like all skills, it can be learned. My work is an invitation to begin.
The world needs it.
The Scale
A meditation on distorted perception, invisible shame and toxic aesthetic norms
Placed on floor object
Recycled analog weighing scale
28.5 x 42.5 x 8.5 cm
2019
An analogue weighing scale, fully functional yet rendered useless. Every number on the dial has been replaced with the word fat, leaving the needle intact but the measurement absurd. In The Scale, the artist materialises the internal logic of body dysmorphia: a condition where perception detaches from reality, and the verdict is always the same.
Rooted in lived experience, the work invites viewers into the invisible repetition of daily self-judgement, the compulsive rituals, the distorted mirror, the shame that shadows even the healthiest body. But it also widens the lens. The Scale speaks to a broader cultural pathology: how appearance is commodified, how shame is engineered, and how value is measured in units that serve profit over wellbeing.
Like all instruments of control, the scale appears neutral: precise, familiar, clinical. But beneath its surface lies a narrative of coercion: aesthetic norms enforced by capitalism, media, and algorithm. And if it’s designed to make you feel unworthy — who benefits?
Explore the full picture
Download the extended reflection on The Clock, a philosophical and political exploration of gender, control, and the false precision of binary systems.
If time can be split into hours and minutes, can identity be divided too? And what happens when those divisions are enforced?
Meditation
This isn’t just about a clock. It’s about the quiet systems we inherit, ones that divide, assign, and demand performance.
Who decides the rhythm we live by? And what if the clock was never neutral to begin with?