Shadows emerges from an intimate dialogue with clay and with what surfaces when the material resists. Clay cracks, breaks, asserts itself; and in those ruptures something essential appears. I do not aim to “beautify” what feels uncomfortable, but to embrace the fissures and breaks, allowing vital light to emerge from them. Vulnerability does not weaken the work — it intensifies it.

The series explores what we do with what we dislike or experience as difficult to accept. Do we repress, deny, tame, integrate? I work with the shadow in the Jungian sense: the aspects of ourselves we reject and, by not seeing them, project onto others as something hostile. As Jung wrote: what you deny submits you; what you integrate transforms you. Integrating the shadow becomes a way to reclaim freedom, energy, and flexibility.

Shadows does not depict how something looks from the outside, but how it is lived internally: unresolved tensions, suspended movement, forces that coexist without cancelling each other. The series seeks to transform discomfort into vitality, to recover passion, and to allow what unsettles us to unfold into presence, movement, and light.