Emotional Defence Mechanism
Mixed media (Wood Assembly Relief)
50 × 45 × 8 cm
2025
Emotional Defence Mechanism
is a wood assembly Relief work, engaging with the collapse of structure through a language of restraint, where defence operates as both condition and response. The fragmented frame establishes an unstable field of perception, suggesting that what we see is constructed and mediated, challenging fixed hierarchies of representation.
The arrow functions as both vector and barrier, introducing distance, control, and precision, while a partial body with closed lips signals silence and internalised pressure. Constructed from discarded wood a material translation of my newspaper sculpture, mimicking paper folds, the work draws on the material logic of media, where fragments reconstruct meaning and shape what is understood as truth.
