My practice explores the tension and harmony between fragility and strength, visibility and concealment, interior and exterior. Working primarily in metal and blown glass, I create intimate, wearable objects that engage with the body as both a site of transformation and a vessel for care. Glass, with its fluidity and fragility, evokes queerness, vulnerability, and the mystical. Metal, by contrast, offers a sense of grounding and durability. Together, these materials mirror the dualities I navigate as a queer, invisibly disabled, Latinx artist grounded in nepantla– a Mexica word for spaces of in-between.
HANNAH TOUSSAINT 