PRESSURE
Force enters the material.
Objects in Transformation
Pressure can break a form — or transform it.
When a form can endure, adapt, and find a new balance without erasing the traces of what shaped it, it does not return to what it was. It becomes a more resolved version of itself.
ORGANIC TRANSFORMATION
Pressure becomes form.
Pressure can destroy a form, or force it to change. If it can endure, adapt, and find a new balance — not necessarily a symmetrical one — it does not return to what it was before. It becomes another form: one that carries the trace of what it has endured, and is made more resolved and meaningful because of it.
DEFORMATION
The original state gives way.
REBALANCE
Stability is found without symmetry.
BECOME
The trace becomes part of the new form.
TWO MATERIAL RESPONSES
One philosophy. Two scales of form.
The same question moves through both bodies of work: how can material altered by pressure find another balance without losing the evidence of what shaped it?
Wearable Art
Paper is compressed, folded and displaced into sculptural wearable forms. Each piece is singular in presence and materially light on the body.
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Sculptural Light
Weathered wood sets the terms. Structure and handmade paper respond to its cracks, bends and existing weight until a new luminous balance appears.
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THE ARTIST
Sara Niknejad
An artist and designer working between material, structure and transformation. Her practice treats cracks, folds, pressure and asymmetry as structural information — conditions that can lead a form toward another state of balance.
With an architectural way of seeing, she works at two scales: objects carried by the body and sculptural light held in space.
Artist & studioPRESSURE CHANGES FORM.
ADAPTATION FINDS BALANCE.
THE TRACE REMAINS.
Niksa Design — wearable art and sculptural light.