Boraz wrote about this work:
"Temptation is the first piece in a larger body of work about the moral compass. The work grows out of my recent July exhibition, For the Taking, which looked at desire and consumption. That work asked questions about what we want and what we take. With this new body of work, I am interested in what happens next: the rules we create around those desires and the beliefs that tell us what we should or shouldn’t do.

Temptation references the story of Eve as a way to think about temptation, judgment, sacrifice, responsibility, punishment, forgiveness, and human behavior. The use of real gold brings questions of value and desire into the work, complicating the line between what we consider precious and what we consider right. The ceramic material introduces a tension of its own. While it can feel solid and permanent, it is also fragile and can break when handled incorrectly. I’m interested in that tension as a way to think about the fragility of choice and the consequences that can follow." October 2026