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A vertical sculpture assembled from silver-toned artifacts once linked to touch, adornment, and display. At its center rises a polished metal hand—an industrial form used to heat and shape gloves in a commercial workshop. Once utilitarian, it now stands upright and reflective, both tool and gesture.
Above it, a circular zinc record for mechanical music serves as a radiant field. Resting across its surface are two intimate objects: a powder case and a cigarette case, their curved planes echoing the polished metal below. Embedded within the upper assembly is a 1930s German glass slide depicting a fashion advertisement—an image of glamour preserved within a mechanical frame.
Together, these elements evoke a world of cultivated surfaces and idealized touch: the glove, the mirror, the cosmetic case, the advertisement. The sculpture unites them in a cool harmony of silver and light, transforming instruments of manufacture and vanity into a single poised figure—elegant, distant, and quietly human.
