Red Touch Silent Feet looks at the paradox of faces appearing where they are not expected, opening a link between human consciousness and the natural world. I draw from cross sections of plant tissue, especially lotus root, whose repeating holes often read as human faces that laugh, cry, or sit between expressions. This curiosity blurs the boundary between nonhuman nature and human perception. I am drawn to a space where those borders stay in flux.

The figures’ postures echo the Vajra, a guardian form associated with durability and irresistible force. This symbol offers a sense of steadiness when reality feels heavy. The lotus root connects to transcendence, travelling through the stem to the lotus flower. It becomes a passageway, a gate into altered realities.

I enlarge these vegetal expressions and let them become fictional personas that resonate with the Vajra. The work suggests that life appears in unexpected places and can take on shifting identities. Nonhuman forms briefly take on human qualities, offering a glimpse of an alternate reality where many lives merge and blend. Staying with this change softens fear. Life can happen and unhappen at once, and the work sits with that simultaneity.