G l o s s a r y   o f   t e r m s

A glossary of terms and phrases that appear across the site. Not definitions, but coordinates — a way into the work,  a way to pause inside it.

Intersentient Figures

Forms that hover between presence and program, between the organic and the made. They are not resolved. Not symbolic. They hold a kind of stillness before cognition — as if waiting to be recognised, or named, or forgotten. These figures do not communicate directly but seem to invite a sensing beyond language. They may appear human, but their gaze, posture, or configuration suspends easy categorisation. They are intermediaries of experience — figures that emerge from touch, memory, and algorithmic residue.

Reliquary Forms

Not containers of faith, but vessels of potential. These works do not memorialise, but suspend — material fragments held in tension, as if memory and future had condensed into object. They echo devotional artefacts without belonging to any creed. They are places of pause, of inward projection. What they hold is uncertain: not a relic, but an atmosphere, a held ambiguity.

Vessels, Figures, Panels

Three languages. The vessel: constraint and volume. The figure: presence and echo. The panel: inscription and surface. Each informs the others. Each returns to stillness differently. Together they form a triadic practice — each mode of making shaping and reflecting the others. The vessel may carry the residue of a figure. The panel may become a flattened reliquary. These categories blur, intentionally.

Distilled Attention

A phrase from the studio. A form of making in which gesture is reduced to necessity — not minimalism, but a concentration of energy into the essential. Something quieter than expression. This is attention honed through time: each mark, texture, or incision arrives after hesitation, reconsideration, return. It is a form of intimacy with the material — not dominance, but attunement.