ABSENCE

Homeless begins with a damaged picture frame that can no longer support itself. Resting on crutches, it becomes a surrogate body: wounded, unstable, yet compelled to remain upright. Medical bandages and torn cardboard bind the fractured structure together, but they do not restore it. Their function is temporary and ambivalent — they protect, restrain, and expose the damage at once.

The work transforms the frame from an object of display into a body dependent on external aid. Homeless addresses what happens when the structures that once held a person — home, stability, belonging — collapse, leaving survival dependent on provisional forms of support.