Do I Choose?

2025 | 15 x 15 x 10 cm | sculpture | ceramics, acrylics

This work begins with an unsettling question: do we have free will? Some theories suggest that we do not, and encountering that idea can feel strange and frustrating. It creates a quiet resistance, a sense that something deeply personal is being challenged. If choice is not entirely ours, then what are we really doing when we think, decide, or imagine?

Thoughts seem to almost appear on their own. They surface before we have time to examine them, before we can say where they came from. They feel spontaneous and alive, yet slightly out of reach, as if they were already forming beneath awareness. 

The work stays with that uncertainty rather than trying to resolve it. It holds a space where belief and doubt exist at the same time, and identity begins to blur. If thoughts arrive before intention, who is the one choosing?