
Dark Blue Balloon
2023
Dark Blue Balloon presents a luminous glass vessel infused with breath and spirit, a triptych of materials that transforms a modest sculptural form into something charged with presence and intention. Measuring just over thirty centimeters in height, the work operates at an intimate scale, demanding close attention and rewarding it with a quiet intensity that larger gestures rarely achieve. The deep blue tone embedded within the glass carries an emotional weight that is simultaneously mournful and radiant, occupying that rare chromatic territory where grief and transcendence become indistinguishable from one another. Shikeith, whose practice spans photography, film, performance, and sculpture, consistently returns to the body as a site of spiritual and political inquiry, particularly as it relates to Black masculine interiority. In Dark Blue Balloon, the medium itself becomes the message. Breath, listed explicitly as a material, is not metaphorical here but literal and urgent, evoking both the fragility of life and the radical act of survival. Glass holds what cannot otherwise be contained, giving physical form to something invisible and deeply personal, and in doing so creates a relational object that asks the viewer to consider whose breath, whose spirit, has been enshrined. Offered through Yossi Milo Gallery, this work represents a significant and highly collectible moment in Shikeith's evolving sculptural vocabulary. Its small scale belies its conceptual ambition, making it an ideal acquisition for collectors who value works that sustain meaning well beyond first encounter. The piece stands as both object and offering, a condensed monument to tenderness and resistance.
- Medium
- Glass, Breathe, Spirit
- Overall
- Location
- Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Yossi Milo GalleryView on map
For Sale — $7500
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