I work with what I find around me as a way of attuning to place—engaging with its layered realities and unseen tensions. The discarded materials I gather emerge from global systems of consumption, bearing the traces of movement, labor, and neglect.
I respond to their grit, scent, heft, and luminosity through processes of burning, layering, and transformation. Luminous surfaces emerge that rupture, implode, and reveal—gesturing toward an elusive thread that binds earth and cosmos, reframing material,
context, and place.
My relationship to material has been shaped by a life lived across multiple geographies, where displacement, adaptation, and reuse were part of everyday experience. Moving through cultures marked by transience and necessity fostered an attentiveness to what is
provisional, overlooked, and in flux, as well as a working method that allows materials to respond, break, and reconfigure rather than remain fixed.
My practice entails a rigorous questioning of inherited perceptions and an openness to what endures beyond them. It embraces uncertainty and transformation, positioning the everyday as a site of renewal and collective possibility.
