Never Fully Free

Never Fully Free emerges from an experience in Spain; being told that language, religion, and knowledge were “given” through colonisation. These encounters produced a deep friction; a denial of my mixed background, followed by an urge to reclaim what had been dismissed.

The sculpture is built from Indigenous women’s ponchos, sewn into sack-like forms and filled with cardboard and layered fabrics. What began as an attempt to construct a face collapses under tension; the form tightens, loses definition, and becomes a load.

Suspended and pulled against the wall with ropes and hooks, the structure appears both restrained and in motion; as if it could break away but remains held. The work does not resolve this condition; it holds the weight of what is imposed, and the force of what resists.