My project explores how inner states can be translated into material. Drawing from my 
experience of living between two cultures, I focus on instability, adaptation, and shifting: 
Processes that shape identity yet often remain invisible. The inspiration came from realizing 
how closely emotional and material behaviors resemble each other. Clay cracks, collapses, 
distorts, or stabilizes - much like identity under pressure or change. 
For me, this project creates a space where material is allowed to speak. It offers a way to 
express experiences that resist verbal articulation. Throughout the design process, I learned 
to let go of control and to treat mistakes as meaningful information. Many of my experiments 
- freezing, double extrusion, sound-to-form models, hybrid hand-machine interactions -
revealed that form is something that emerges rather than something entirely directed.
The biggest challenge was staying close to my biographical starting point without turning the 
work into a personal narrative. Instead, I developed a process-oriented language in which 
material and identity reflect one another.