Chasing Perfection - Sculpture (Polished mirrored stainless steel) 2026 'IN PRODUCTION'
My sculpture explores the human desire for perfection and the pressure we place on ourselves to achieve it. In my own experience, I have often felt overwhelmed by trying to create the best possible outcome, even when that level of perfection is impossible to reach.
The spheres appear complete and perfect individually, but together they create a sense of uncertainty. Their arrangement looks as though it is balanced between stability and collapse, creating tension and making the viewer question whether the sculpture could fall.
This fragile balance represents the way people often live. We try to keep everything together; our expectations, responsibilities, relationships and ambitions, while constantly worrying that one small mistake could cause everything to fall apart.
Rather than showing perfection as something that can actually be achieved, the sculpture presents it as an unstable and unreachable ideal. The imbalance becomes a metaphor for being human: we may never achieve perfection, but the process of trying, failing, adapting and continuing is what gives our experiences meaning.
Ultimately, the sculpture asks the viewer to consider whether being perfectly balanced is really the goal, or whether learning to exist within uncertainty is what makes us human.