Guarded

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Hand beaten brass sheet, 86 x 86 x 48 cm

Jan 2026

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Guarded emerges from my ongoing engagement with discarded blister packs, where the residue of consumption becomes a site of quiet transformation. In this work, I translate the fragile, throwaway materiality of the blister pack into a more enduring form by beating a brass plate—retaining the familiar pill-shaped impressions while shifting their tactile and symbolic weight.

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The act of hammering is forceful - each indentation is not just a trace but a mark of insistence. What was once soft, disposable plastic becomes a hardened, luminous surface, suggesting preservation rather than depletion. The blister cavities, usually emptied and discarded, now hold a sculptural presence, as if they are vessels that guard absence itself. Through this material translation, I attempt to grant the empty blister pack a kind of sacred dignity. The work reimagines these forms as devotional objects, where repetition becomes ritual and surface becomes skin. Guarded reflects on how care, consumption, and healing leave behind subtle imprints—often overlooked, yet deeply embedded in the body and memory.

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