“FIGURE” Collection takes the CHATS woman into a summer like no other. In the silence of space and time, the woman finds her own intellectual feminine and the balance between two strong extremes—soft and hard, dynamic and static.

“This is not the end. I move between the shore and the water, between the present and the existence, between here and there. On the boat, unmoored and paddleless, I am shielded from the familiar to find the warmth of belonging. I let the current carry me, cradling the support of the distant shore. The passage has left marks on my hair and lips. In the desolate untouched environment, I face the precariousness of this place. The white wind howls, the shallow water pushes and pulls—could this be the place I am searching for? Time is healing, is the end.”

“No, I am not ready for a full stop… Let me immerse myself in the polarity of questions and answers or the ever-hesitant semicolon. That is the beauty of the journey: the silence amid an unceasing life. The wind on my salt-soaked hair, grains of sand between my toes, the faint sound of the shallow sea etched in my ears. Just a little longer, and then I will continue.”