Genesis inhabits the threshold between dissolution and coherence. It is neither ruin nor recovery but the slow negotiation through which new form takes hold. The structure suggests matter reorganizing itself under new laws, ones born not of memory but of transformation. Within The Law of Inner Alchemy, this work marks the point at which the self ceases to resemble what it once was, yet learns to endure as something else entirely.

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Sonder, understood as the recognition that every other life contains an interiority as dense, pressured, and reconfiguring as one’s own, offers a way to situate what I call The Law of Inner Alchemy. This law proposes that the principles which govern physical matter also govern psychic life: every external force reorganises what lies within. When a force acts upon a body in physics, deformation occurs; the structure yields, redistributes, and settles into a new configuration. Grief functions as its emotional analogue. It presses, fractures, and rearranges the internal geometry of the self so that no subject returns to a prior state, only to a differently calibrated equilibrium.

Sonder extends this from the singular to the collective. The transformations I trace are not unique to one narrative but are constantly unfolding across countless, unseen interiors. Every stranger is a site where pressure, implosion, and slow reconstitution are underway, whether or not they are spoken of. Loss becomes an architectural event, an ongoing experiment in form shared by all bodies.

The sculptures materialise this inner alchemy. Leather here has been treated as a proxy for skin and memory, subjected to stretching, compression, burning, and imprinting until it carries the residue of impact. Each marked surface is intended to represent a diagram of forces that could be applied to any body, anywhere.

As the viewer lingers before the work, grief appears as a shared, unseen morphology, an inner alchemy quietly redrawing the secret map of every parallel life, including their own.