Galatea

Galatea is the third object in Holding Pattern and marks a shift from orbit to encounter. Where earlier works trace orientation through trajectory and distance, Galatea introduces proximity: orientation as a shared condition, shaped through reciprocal turning. Drawing on the myth of Galatea, the work collapses the distance between sculptor and sculpture, positioning the body as both agent and object of transformation.

 Formed from a wide sterling silver band fitted with a pull-collar loop, the ring literalizes orientation as an act of holding while refusing a stable distinction between wearer and controller. The pull-collar motif operates as an orientation device whose directionality remains ambiguous, emphasizing how acts of holding are always shared, negotiated, and reversible.

 Galatea is the only object in the collection finished in a high mirror polish. Its exterior reflects sustained control and precision, while the interior retains a hand-textured surface marked by pressure and abrasion - exposing the tension between idealization and the simultaneous act of shaping and being shaped.

 Within Holding Pattern, Galatea names devotion as a structural condition rather than an emotion: an orientation sustained through touch and proximity, in which agency is neither fixed nor singular, but continually produced through relation. Devotion here is not submission, but mutual transformation – the condition of being simultaneously Pygmalion and Galatea, maker and made.