Becoming is a sculptural installation consisting of outlines of five human forms, each constructed from wire and gauze and suspended one inch above the ground using transparent rigging. The figures are proportionally enlarged to 1.2 times the size of an average adult body ─ not stretched or distorted, but scaled uniformly to reflect a fabricated ideal. The installation measures approximately 2.5 x 5 x 2 metres.

The materials are deliberately insubstantial: wire provides minimal structure, while gauze offers a fragile, mummified surface ─ a suggestion of skin or presence without substance. These bodies hover, untethered from the earth, incomplete and impossible to inhabit. Their emptiness cannot be filled. The dimensions are intentionally too large, echoing a scale of want defined by marketing language ─ designed to keep us buying, to keep us striving to fill a created emptiness that was never meant to be satisfied.

Becoming continues my critique of consumerism and commodified identity. As consumers, we are never complete; we are always in a state of becoming. The outline is too large, and we are never enough to fill it. In contrast, the body corporate sees us not as people, but as voids to be filled ─ applying a scale divorced from reality to keep us suspended in this perpetual becoming.