Surveying Desire XVI: Ossuary

Crafted for an exhibition of diverse ossuaries (repositories for remains), this work continues the Surveying Desire series’ exploration of loneliness and the search for companionship, understood as both individual longing and cultural force. It features a 14-inch bronze wishbone housed in a large glass dome, seated atop a stand made of crutches with a gilded lead heart as counterweight. Ossuary proposes the wishbone as both relic and instrument of desire, its broken state an elegy to fulfillment as much as mortality.