Eunah Choi

MFA Sculpture

A Language Held in Relief

A Language Held in Relief begins with a full month of journal writing. The pages were redacted, scanned, engraved into wood, and cast into plaster, turning private language into raised surfaces that can be approached, held, and only partially read.

Through this process, writing moves away from direct confession and becomes a tactile form of communication. Redaction is not only an act of hiding; it is a way of shaping how closeness can happen. The plaster pieces carry traces of sentences without fully giving them away. They hold pressure, texture, weight, and the residue of something once written.

I am interested in what remains after language has been covered, transferred, and transformed. Viewers are invited to come close, handle the pieces carefully, and sense that something intimate is present without becoming completely accessible.

The work asks how much of the self can be shared without being fully exposed. It imagines connection through partial contact: something offered, held, and still withheld.