Proxy Bodies, 2026

These works consider the conditions of chronic pain and the ways the body adapts in order to continue functioning. Through blown and assembled glass forms that draw on anatomical systems and interventions, the work approaches the body as a dynamic system that requires continual adaptation.

The work emerges from a feedback loop between bodily perception, medical imaging, and AI-generated image space, where bodily forms become proxy systems that infer, fragment, and misread the body in an attempt to locate the source of pain. Pain itself remains inaccessible, known only through its effects, and resists full comprehension or visual resolution. The work holds the body in a condition of ongoing translation, where stability is always provisional and meaning is produced through processes of adaptation, prosthetic logic, and mediation rather than direct access.