Sandbox
At what precise moment do we leave childhood and become adults?
There was a time when society provided a clear map for this transition, marked by defined milestones: a job, a home, a family. Today, that map has vanished. Adulthood has ceased to be a destination, becoming instead an ambiguous process, a territory that each individual must chart for themselves.
This installation explores the anatomy of that transition. Childhood is presented as a «sandbox,» a contained and safe space for play, defined by a firm structure. It is the sand: time past, the raw material. From it, however, pieces of glass ascend, rising toward the ceiling.
The work confronts us with this metamorphosis. The glass, forged from the sand itself, represents the «becoming» that the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir spoke of. It is no longer the passive material of childhood, but something new, elevated, and transcendent. In the absence of external rites, we are forced to take the raw material of our past and actively construct our own identity.
This work does not offer an answer; it offers a threshold: the liminal space where the transformation takes place.
200 x 200
Iron square, sand, wax, glass
2025
