“A Part of Me Stayed”
This piece explores the quiet exchange that happens between people — the kind that doesn’t ask for permission and often goes unnoticed. Through a gentle, almost intimate gesture, one figure offers a part of themselves to the other. It is not a loss, but a transformation. Something once internal shifts, softens, and begins to exist elsewhere. The puzzle-like form becomes a metaphor for emotional transfer — a fragment that cannot fully belong to one body anymore. The act of giving here is not dramatic, but inevitable. I was interested in capturing that subtle moment between holding and letting go — where connection and separation exist at the same time.