Akdemir's Knots series deepens In Between by investigating what permanence means in attachment. Where the first series explored proximity between two distinct beings, Knots asks what remains when that encounter becomes permanent. The coiled stoneware loops interlock without resolution, creating forms that cannot be undone without breaking. The answer to permanent connection is not harmony. It is the willingness to remain tangled, to accept that some bonds reshape who we are so fundamentally they become inseparable from identity.

Each sculpture embodies this through hand-built loops that spiral asymmetrically, refusing symmetry or visual resolution. The contrast between glazed and raw stoneware surfaces intensifies the conceptual content. Smooth, polished areas meet porous, vulnerable clay. Forms that reference vessels abandon their function entirely. Handles extend into space with no purpose. Scale varies deliberately, from intimate pieces that fit in the palm to large architectural works that sprawl across space. The hand-building method ensures no two coils are identical, creating variations in thickness and spacing that document the labor of binding.

The work proposes that real attachment holds difference and tension as permanent conditions, not problems to solve. The loops don't untie. The coils don't separate. By refusing easy resolution, Akdemir makes visible the architecture of intimacy under strain, where proximity doesn't require sameness. The sculptures are evidence that the most honest bonds are those that accept their own complexity, that remain knotted not despite entanglement but precisely because that entanglement has become foundational to who they are.