A life - sized figure that seems to pass through a gallery wall (Self in progress, 2002), a self -
portrait cast in an opaque waxy substance that vanishes
over time (Untitled, 2004), a drawing that measures the
duration of an entire day by means of a slow - burning fuse (Dawn to dawn, 2004), and a slender branch of thorns cast in solid gold (Golden Thorn, 2004) all speak of the artist's quest for the ungraspable.