I am currently exploring needle felting as a tactile sculpting technique, using barbed felting needles, wool roving, and foam felting mats to build soft forms from natural fibers. This process involves repeatedly stabbing loose wool to interlock its fibers, gradually shaping it into dense, cohesive structures. As I develop greater control over volume, texture, and fine detailing, I’ve begun experimenting with small-scale felted characters, organic forms, and modular elements that could potentially be integrated into mixed-media automata. The appeal of felting lies in its blend of material softness and sculptural precision—offering a strong contrast to the harder materials typically found in mechanical work. This practice adds a new material language to my skill set and opens up opportunities for embedding warmth, narrative, and unexpected textures into future kinetic art pieces.