Skeleton Woman

Inspired by the Inuit myth of the same name, Skeleton Woman speaks to the possibility of return—from death, from abandonment, from the deep. In the story, a woman’s skeleton lies forgotten on the ocean floor until a fisherman, moved by compassion, draws her from the depths. Through tenderness and time, she is reconstituted into life.

This piece brings the myth into the physical world: a chalk form, worn by sea and time, becomes the spectral body—retrieved from the shoreline near your boat and echoing a dream vision. The figure is cradled in a delicate bamboo lattice, part trap, part altar, its geometry suggesting nets, ribs, and ritual grids.