VASE UNBROKEN - Another Failed Attempt to Reconstruct

A sculpture that simulates a vase as it breaks and tries to reconstruct itself.

A vase is a temporary structure: material arranged around an empty space, holding that space in a particular form.

When it breaks, it stops being a vase and becomes something else: a field of fragments, trajectories, detritus, and changing relationships. It becomes material for the future.

In VASE UNBROKEN, the fragments of the former vase never get to move on. They are held inside the moment of breaking. Rather than presenting the aftermath of destruction, the sculpture inhabits the event itself. The fragments travel outward through physical space and then return, tracing an attempted reversal of what has already occurred.

The vase is never fully reconstructed. Its form becomes visible, approaches coherence, and falls away again. The sculpture can repeat the event and run its motions backward, but it cannot undo it.

The work exists inside this contradiction: the persistent desire to recover a former whole and the impossibility of returning to it. Its failure is not a malfunction. The event can be replayed, but not reversed.