Core (2016)
Cast seagrass torso mounted in a steel frame
Cast: 66 × 36 × 5 cm. (26 × 14 × 2 in.)
Frame: 156 × 30 × 61 cm. (61 × 24 × 24 in.)

Core was conceived as a response to malicious gossip and public shaming—mechanisms that flatten a complex, embodied individual into a reduced, two-dimensional form. The work reflects how social judgment operates as a disciplinary force, penetrating the subject and stripping away interiority, presence, and agency. Within Anatomies of Control, the piece examines how reputational violence becomes a form of embodied constraint..