Echo

In the story of Quetzalcoatl and the rabbit, the god walks the earth in human form and grows weak with hunger. A small rabbit offers itself as food, an act of care so profound that Quetzalcoatl instead lifts the rabbit to the moon, preserving its image in the sky. The story speaks about how a fleeting moment of connection can be transformed into something lasting, carried across distance and time.

These two works connect through this idea that presence can persist even when the body is no longer there. In the ceramic piece, a ring of repeated rabbit heads faces inward, surrounding scattered hearts that feel like traces of affection held within the form. The repetition of the rabbits reads like memory or echo, as if a single presence has been multiplied through recollection rather than physical reality. The tactile, intimate nature of the object suggests something handled, shared, and remembered. In contrast, the print presents a solitary rabbit suspended in a cosmic space, surrounded by lunar phases and earthly symbols. This rabbit feels distant and transformed, less like a body and more like an imprint or myth.

Through the lens of the Quetzalcoatl story, the rabbit shifts from a living being into a symbol that exists across distance. In the print, this transformation appears in its elevated, almost celestial state. In the ceramic work, what remains feels like the afterimage of that shift, a gathering of traces left behind. Together, the works suggest that love does not disappear with distance but changes form, becoming something held in objects, in memory, and in shared symbolic space.