Tender, 2023-2025
Crocheted and melted nylon, glass marbles, ramie
Sculpture: 20cmL x 21cmW x 40cmH
Video: 1’34”
This vessel was completed in 2023 and rested for 2 years before destruction in 2025.
“Living people
are soft and tender.
Corpses are hard and stiff.
The ten thousand things,
the living grass, the trees,
are soft, pliant.
Dead, they’re dry and brittle.
The hard and great go under. The soft and weak stay up.”
- Hardness (1997), Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, interpreted by Ursula K. Le Guin
Our ability to be soft and feel pain is our strength.