Galatea

Galatea is a wide sterling silver band fitted with a pull-collar loop, its exterior finished in a high mirror polish and its interior marked with a hand-textured surface. The ring’s polished exterior presents a controlled, reflective perfection, while the inner surface retains the trace of touch, pressure, and abrasion.  

The piece examines devotion as a form of making and being made. Drawing on the myth of Galatea, it collapses the distance between sculptor and sculpture, positioning the body as both agent and object of transformation. The pull-collar motif functions as a gesture of orientation and control – a turning toward another that reshapes both bodies.  

Within Holding Pattern, Galatea marks a shift from abstraction to encounter. Where earlier works trace orbit and distance, this ring introduces proximity: devotion rendered as touch, possession, and submission. Its immaculate surface conceals an underlying unease, exposing the tension between idealisation and the violence of being shaped.