Omnipotent (Cosmic Turtle City) Ceramic Religious Sculpture

This sculptural hybrid stages a slow, burdened pilgrimage: a turtle’s patterned, earthbound body becomes the foundation for a precarious vertical city, its stacked balconies crowded with tiny witnesses who seem to both inhabit and surveil one another. The contrast between the animal’s weight and the tower’s feverish accumulation turns architecture into a kind of social load—community as shelter, but also as pressure—while the dark, human-like head at the prow introduces an unsettling consciousness, as if the creature carries not only a settlement but the memory of those who built it. Saturated bands of color punctuate the tiered façade like flags of resilience, yet their brightness cannot fully soften the sense of endurance, suggesting a fable about migration, labor, and the fragile dignity of moving forward under too much world.