SLINKY

Slinky presents three suspended coils set in motion under a side light, their shadows stretching across a white background in continuous expansion and recoil. Accumulation occurs through both time and material: a mass-produced toy, cheap and familiar, becomes something more through repetition and duration. Their vertical lines recall DNA strands, evoking the way inheritance is inscribed and carried forward.

At intervals, a hand with red nail polish enters the frame, pulling or stilling the coils, alternately generating and interrupting their motion. Slinky shifts the focus to the tension between hand and object, form and echo. The coils expand, recoil, and remain in motion, demonstrating a capacity for action that exceeds the hand’s control. They do not resolve the tension of agency, but they make it visible—showing that meaning is made not only in what persists but also in what is resisted.