Sphere
Sphere 092
2026
Deep sea greens and blues fill most of the glass, but the lower edge holds a patch of warm, grainy light — sand lit by sun inside cold water. Two temperatures share one sphere, and the brighter one is small, steady, and impossible to overlook.
- Medium
- Digital Photography / Photo-based Digital Art
- Materials
- Archival pigment print on archival paper, mounted under museum acrylic glass
- Dimensions
- 60 × 60 × 5 cm
- Edition
- Unique work — Encapsulated Passions 108
- Availability
- Available
Encapsulated Passions 108
One sphere for every passion a person carries. When the last one is gone, the cycle ends.
The count comes from the juzu, the Japanese string of 108 beads, where each bead stands for one passion — and not all of them are faults; many are what people call virtues. I did not arrive at this through belief: years of guiding through Japan's temples and sacred places left me not doctrine but a number — this many, and no more.
Each sphere seals one passion under acrylic glass. Which one, I keep unspoken — the works are not numbered, and none names its passion. When the hundred-and-eighth finds its collector, the cycle closes and will not be resumed.