Dividing Threads

This series explores the fragile boundary between recognition and disappearance. The figures stand emptied of individual features, their faces erased into stillness. What remains are folds of vivid cloth, the only trace of difference left to hold meaning. Through color and fabric, identity becomes both visible and reduced, marked by what separates rather than what connects.

The imagery captures the uneasy transformation of presence into symbol. By stripping the body of its face, the works reveal how easily humanity can be simplified into surface. The garments, once expressions of culture and care, become signposts of division, their beauty shadowed by the weight of perception. Each figure bears witness to how belonging can be constructed through exclusion.

At its heart, Dividing Threads is a meditation on the quiet dangers of separation. It reflects how easily the loss of empathy can turn difference into distance, and distance into dehumanization. The figures stand within that void, isolated not by their choosing but by the gaze that refuses to see them fully. In this stillness, the work bears witness to the human cost of exclusion and reminds us that when we allow others to be stripped of their likeness to us, we lose a part of our own.