Noli Me Tángere
Noli Me Tángere (Latin: “Touch Me Not”) is an 8″ × 5″ lead bowl filled nearly to the brim with honey, exploring the tension between attraction and restraint. The title references multiple layers of meaning: Christ’s words to Mary Magdalene, the ceremonial or sacred gesture of prohibition, and the familiar museum label warning Do Not Touch.
This work functions as a conceptual portrait of the human form. The lead serves as the body—a protective, grounding vessel—while the honey embodies essence, vitality, and interior substance. The interplay of cold, dense metal and warm, flowing honey reflects the delicate balance between surface and depth, exterior and interior, matter and spirit.
Through Noli Me Tángere, viewers are invited to consider desire, boundaries, and the fragility of human experience. It meditates on intimacy, corporeality, and the paradoxical beauty of containment: the body as vessel, the essence as precious, and the threshold between access and prohibition as a site of reflection.