Gentle Creatures is a series of human-scaled sculptures made from cotton wool; a material rooted in Eastern European toy-making traditions and historically tied to the utilitarian jackets, the padded uniform of the Soviet proletariat. 

Once used to insulate and conform the body to state ideals, cotton wool becomes in this work something radically open, tender, and emotionally complex. Through these soft, ambiguous, and alien sculptures, I aim to give the material a new meaning in reworking its ideological weight into a space for speculation, hybridity, and embodied vulnerability.

I see myself as an alien, who is fluidly moving through worlds where I need to adjust, transform and change, shaped by dislocation, memory, and difference. The figures with sprouting horns, thorns, and other unfamiliar features reflect this sense of otherness, not as something to be feared, but as a site of potential connection. These forms are kept in gestures of tenderness, evoking a sense of togetherness and community.

The sculptures are set within dreamlike environments like playgrounds from my childhood where a slide grows a tongue, or flowers blossom with human faces, blurring the line between memory and future, the intimate and the otherworldly. Gentle Creatures proposes a soft resistance: an alternative language of kinship, built not through control or clarity, but through the uncertain, the tender, and the strange. These sculptures were shown in Westwerk. in a dialogue with paintings by Eliza Wagener.