The Code.

The research kept returning to the same paradox: he is calm, rational, a master of numbers. She is creative, high-energy, constantly in motion. Opposites that don't cancel each other out but amplify each other. Ten people said some version of the same thing.

The formal language is binary. Rods are ones, spheres are zeroes, a reference to their tech world but also to the energies the interviews described. Heavy linear rods for his stable, grounding force. Light, colorful spheres for her dynamic creativity. The numbers are embedded: four and eight, for family and infinity, calculated into the quantities of rods and balls.

The pieces connect by magnet. They can be separated, reconfigured, collapsed and rebuilt. The work doesn't represent their relationship as fixed. It enacts it as system: permanence in the connection, not the configuration. Better together. This is their code.

Steel, iron, magnets, Belgian hardstone. 15 x 27 cm x endless possibilities.