Grounding one foot with the other, pressing clay, embodies the body’s resilience and limitations. Often reduced to a symbol—especially through illness or displacement—this act reclaims agency, grounding it in clay’s tactile connection to the earth. Residues, like unconscious imprints, form abstract maps of memory, blurring materiality and representation. Projected onto the same paper used in the act, boundaries dissolve. The dried terracotta cast, fragile yet enduring, symbolizes resilience and vulnerability. It preserves the memory of touch while standing apart, hardened and transformed, a testament to the body’s enduring connection to material and process.