Flight Paths

Flight Paths is the first object in Holding Pattern, functioning as a point of departure. It establishes the collection’s central concern with orbit, repetition, and relational geometry, articulating the body as oriented through direction and movement rather than meaning, the situated self understood as a trajectory rather than a fixed position.

Formed from six loops of sterling silver wire, fanned and bound into a single structure, the bands spiral without meeting, tracing parallel trajectories and distances – always in alignment, but never intersecting. 

 The piece explores orientation as a condition of relation: bodies circling one another, held in motion by proximity and distance. Its open structure emphasizes movement, repetition, and gravitational tension – an approach without arrival, direction without resolution.