This story began when the painting My Parents Were the First Mythological Creatures I Met saw the light of day. It transformed my understanding of the correlation between my different mediums—painting and sculpture.

I felt an urge to breathe more life into this story. It wouldn’t let me go, as if the painting wasn’t the whole story but just the beginning.

This impulse led me to a new series of sculptures, showcasing various interpretations of the Guardian Figure from the painting—bringing to life Guardians of Memory, Sleep, and Altars of Unconditional Love.

The Guardian is the comforting essence, the shelter that covers and protects different aspects of our collective identity.

Rising like a monument, it stands to protect and watch over us mentally—like a Guardian Angel brought to Earth by humans. Frozen in time and form, it is meant to replicate aspects of human nature, yet it creates a fourth visual figuration—somewhere between animal, human, and mythological fantasy being—meant to protect, love, and remind us of the depths of our fantastical inner world, which we must care for just as much as the physical one.