My practice centres on a tactile engagement with the material world, revealing its boundless potential for transformation while embracing the immaterial realms of sensation and concept. While my work aims to evoke an aesthetic experience that invites viewers to explore their sensibilities, I am more often drawn to discussing the act of creation itself than any singular 'finished' piece. The creative journey—its rhythms, thoughts, and moments of insight—becomes a work in its own right, capturing a dynamic interplay between materiality and bodily intuition.
Through this symbiotic process, layered images emerge, subtly probing the fragility and inherent instability of our constructed realities. In them, I explore transience, capturing the relentless passage of time through the physical world, where decay is neither the mark of age nor obsolescence, but rather the ‘new’ imbued with traces of what once was.
My fascination with archaeology further informs this exploration. Art and archaeology share a foundational practice: each delves deeply into material worlds to uncover hidden layers and histories. Contemplating the intersections of these realms, I find myself drawn to the profound connections they share, and the potential of contemporary art to evoke dialogues with the human past, inviting reflection on how—and where—our worlds converge.
“ Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it is one of them. It is caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But because it sees and moves itself, it holds things in a circle around itself. Things are an annexe or prolongation of my body; they are incrusted in its flesh and part of its full definition; the world is made of the very stuff of the body. These reversals, these antinomies, are different ways of saying that vision is caught or is made in the middle of things, where something visible undertakes to see, becomes visible for itself and through the vision of all things, where the indivision of the sensing and the sensed persists, like the original fluid within the crystal.”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty