I beg you, coat my tongue
Rubber, wood, paint, metal, 44” x 4” x 44”, 2024
Ariana transforms a banal household object into something unstable, bodily, and hard to categorize. Hand-turned wooden forms curve like a broken banister, a string of oversized beads, or a weakened limb. The structure still carries the warmth of wood and the familiarity of domestic design, but its posture feels deliberately flaccid, as if support has softened into collapse.

The clear rubber coating creates a sense of sticky attraction. It makes the surface appear touchable, even decorative, while also producing discomfort. What should feel familiar becomes strangely intimate and uneasy. Through this shift, Ariana turns an ordinary object into a body-like form, where touch, weakness, playfulness, and repulsion exist at the same time.
Hand-turned wooden shapes form a curve, separated by moments of shadow or reflection. The wood is coated in a sticky, clear rubber. Evoking ideas of children's toys and jewelry, it is developed from the idea of a flaccid banister post. The stickiness of the material coating on a banal household object creates a feeling of discomfort and touch.
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Sticky   ✚
sticky
The clear rubber coating creates a sense of sticky attraction.
Flaccid   ✚
Flaccid
The structure still carries the warmth of wood and the familiarity of domestic design, but its posture feels deliberately flaccid, as if support has softened into collapse.
Banal household object    ✚
Banal household object
Ariana transforms a banal household object into something unstable, bodily, and hard to categorize.
Discomfort    ✚
Discomfort
It makes the surface appear touchable, even decorative, while also producing discomfort.

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I beg you, coat my tongue
Rubber, wood, paint, metal, 44” x 4” x 44”, 2024
From Rexhibit
Ariana transforms a banal household object into something unstable, bodily, and hard to categorize. Hand-turned wooden forms curve like a broken banister, a string of oversized beads, or a weakened limb. The structure still carries the warmth of wood and the familiarity of domestic design, but its posture feels deliberately flaccid, as if support has softened into collapse.

The clear rubber coating creates a sense of sticky attraction. It makes the surface appear touchable, even decorative, while also producing discomfort. What should feel familiar becomes strangely intimate and uneasy. Through this shift, Ariana turns an ordinary object into a body-like form, where touch, weakness, playfulness, and repulsion exist at the same time.
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Hand-turned wooden shapes form a curve, separated by moments of shadow or reflection.The wood is coated in a sticky, clear rubber. Evoking ideas of children's toys and jewelry, itis developed from the idea of a flaccid banister post. The stickiness of the material coatingon a banal household object creates a feeling of discomfort and touch.
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