Artwork description: The Wall of Sorts explores the invisible emotional architectures we build throughout our lives. Relationships, memories and experiences accumulate over time, forming internal structures that shape our sense of identity. Like a wall built brick by brick, these structures appear stable until one supporting element disappears, forcing the whole system to adapt.
The project investigates how we continue building when returning to the original state is no longer possible. The brick is reimagined as a vessel of memory, carrying emotional traces rather than simply serving as a unit of construction.
Cast glass became essential to expressing this idea. Its transparency and constant dialogue with light allow it to exist between presence and absence, stability and fragility. I deliberately work with recycled cast glass, embracing bubbles, inclusions and subtle imperfections as evidence of previous lives. Rather than flaws, these traces become material metaphors for memory itself - layered, incomplete and continually transformed.
Several fractured bricks are reconstructed with forged iron nails, leaving every repair visible. The dialogue between fragile glass and resilient metal reflects the tension between vulnerability and endurance, suggesting that repair does not restore what was lost but creates a new form of wholeness.
The Wall of Sorts ultimately proposes that resilience lies not in returning to what once was, but in continuing to build. Brick by brick.