Works | Love of Lines

My work begins with the body – not as a symbol, but as a living site: an archive, a transgenerational vessel, a threshold between past and future. I am drawn to the way the body holds memory – not only our own, but that of those who came before us. Within its tissues there is pain, survival, and potential. My practice is rooted in the belief that we can be active participants in transmuting what the body holds, reshaping what we carry forward, ignited by a cognizant encounter.

There is an urgency to incision the body, dig into the site, to endure the discomfort – to stare into the murkiness that veils the light. The act of stabbing, cutting, or marking in my work is not violence for its own sake – it is consciousness made visible: awareness with choice, and choice made actionable. It is an act of reclaiming, of interrupting inherited patterns, of rewriting the future through gesture.

I work primarily with paper and clay – materials imbued with embodied energy and raw matter in commensurate amounts, much like the body. Through manipulation, I collaborate with these materials to create spaces where memory and matter meet. The gestures on display – wounded, pierced, torn, stitched – are invitations to imagine how one might shift by rendering the invisible visible.

This is a practice of embodied attention. It is slow, deliberate, and deeply personal. And at its core, it is about transformation: not just of material, but of self, of inheritance, of what might yet be possible.