

Everything Old Is New Again comes from my experience of living in a constant loop where nothing ever fully disappears; it just comes back in a different form. As a young sculptor navigating identity, intimacy, and image in a digital environment, I feel caught between what is natural and what is constructed. This piece reflects that tension. The material mimics flesh, which is soft, translucent, almost bodily-but it's entirely synthetic. That contradiction mirrors how intimacy and identity can feel now: real yet mediated; physical yet shaped by repetition and expectation. The forms fold in on themselves, repeat, and accumulate without a clear beginning or end, echoing cycles of desire, hookup culture, and the pressure of immediacy, in which experiences are constantly consumed, replaced, and re-performed. There's no empty space here. Everything is filled, layered, and compressed, like a surface that can't stop producing. In that way, the work becomes a kind of record of habits, of impulses, of a body navigating systems that are both liberating and overwhelming. What once felt new quickly becomes routine, and what is routine starts to feel inevitable. In this piece, "old" doesn't disappear-it lingers, mutates, and resurfaces. The work asks whether anything is truly new, or if we are just continuously reshaping the same forms, the same desires, and the same selves.
