The X-figures delve into the myriad facets of an enigmatic form – at once symbol, signifier, number, and text – a conduit through space, existence, and time. Each piece in this body of work unearths and reimagines embedded codes and cues through the speculative lens of the X. Traversing cultures, belief systems, and bodies of knowledge, the X forbids and permits, negates and affirms, divides and binds. Upright and anthropomorphic, it conjures a presence with ancestral depth, a sign in prehistoric caves and ancient rock carving. Endlessly replicating at the human core, it embodies gender, a universal DNA carried in the female X chromosome and shared by all. A signifier of mystery and allure, X is an unknown quantity, a hidden treasure, a pivotal axis, and a marker of metaphysical presence: the X factor.