“Sawubona.”

Xhosa—’”I See You. I Recognize Your Humanity” - 2022

In Xhosa culture, Sawubona is not merely a greeting — it is a declaration: you matter, you exist, I witness you. This large-scale mobile responds to that ancient call. Bones — the most intimate architecture of the human body — are inlaid with sterling silver words on both faces, each one holding the duality of what it means to be alive: strength and fragility, courage and fear, love and grief, presence and impermanence, self and other.

Suspended within a handcrafted wooden structure, the mobile breathes with the air around it, never quite still — much like us. It invites you to walk around it, lean in, and read what is written there. To be witnessed in return.

Nothing human is one-dimensional. Neither is this work.

Bone, sterling silver inlay, wood 10 ft h × 9 ft diameter $20,000 (available)