'Hold-Release III' and 'Weights' (both 2025) develop Beales' on-going research into post-digital culture and mental health, reflecting on different strategies to manage anxiety, including breath-work, meditation tools, repetitive movement and sensory toys. 

For 'Hold-Release III' a series of small sculptures were made by squeezing hold of, and then releasing, different types of clay. This clenching and unclenching of the hands, is echoed throughout the body; in the jaw and shoulders where we tend to hold stress and in our breath as we hold and then release anxiety on the exhale. The small sculptures were then used as the basis for a series of drawings, enlarged in 'Hold-Release III' as digital prints on organza. The colours references the language of sensory toys like pop-its and fidget spinners. 

'Weights' draws on devotional objects such as worry beads and rosaries, replacing small beads with oversized hand-blown glass ones. These large glass elements weigh heavily on a safety strap secured by a climbing D-Lock, referencing anxieties about risk, failure and caring.