soft sculpture #2 Studio view
2024
soft sculpture...embroidery thread, gel pen on mulberry paper
29"x 59"x20"
Letters 1–10 is a video and soft sculpture installation responding to Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet. Each short film is paired with a hand-stitched "comforter/cushion" embroidered with faces, gestures, and text fragments. The work translates Rilke’s poetics into tactile and time-based forms, creating spaces of reflection and care.
Rather than offering advice, Rilke invites us to stay present with uncertainty. Discomfort, for him, is not something to overcome but a vital part of becoming. These works hold that tension—where softness and existential unease coexist—and ask what it means to remain open to the unresolved.