I am particularly drawn to abstraction as a means of reinterpreting the figure—whether distilling its essence, as in Mother and Child, or dismantling and reconfiguring form to uncover something unexpected. By “deconstructed,” I refer to a methodology that disrupts conventional representations of the body, fragmenting and reframing anatomical structures to evoke new dialogues between form and meaning. Muscle Man and Girly Girl emerged from an exploration of gendered archetypes, reimagining masculinity and femininity through abstracted, anthropomorphic configurations. Adaptation evolved from a reclining figure into a biomorphic hybrid, a meditation on resilience and transformation in the face of environmental precarity. Across these works, I seek to challenge the boundaries of figuration, embracing abstraction as a conduit for discovery—where the body, fractured and reassembled, becomes a site of both tension and fluidity, familiarity and reinvention.