Kneeling Figure in Silver

Kneeling Figure in Silver is the fifth object in Holding Pattern and marks a shift from orbit to gravity. Where earlier objects trace encounter and repetition, this piece addresses the physical body directly. Here, orientation is no longer circular or reciprocal, but vertical: a body lowered in appeal, surrender, or penance. 

Formed from a wide, cushion-domed sterling silver band, the ring is deliberately dense and weighted, with a continuous skin-like surface developed through repeated cycles of annealing and re-forming. The metal is softened, worked, and returned to heat, allowing the surface to remain bodily, organic, and subtly textured rather than refined. The front of the ring is marked with shallow indentations referencing the transient pressure marks left on skin from kneeling on rough stone. A gesture that would ordinarily fade is fixed in metal; the evidence of devotion is made permanent.

Within Holding Pattern, Kneeling Figure in Silver renders orientation as endurance under pressure – the body lowered and held in place. Holding here is not reciprocal or negotiated, but borne: a position sustained in the absence of response.