Artist Statement

I make sculptures, installations and works on paper inspired by packaging, architectural debris and derelict spaces. I am interested in how these structures are built and how they corrode, exploring the point of transition between becoming and crumbling. Informed by studies in archaeology, architectural fantasy, and theatrical set design, I approach these overlooked materials as silent narrators of our contemporary history. 

Carefully crafted and fragile elements balance in unstable arrangements, as if they’re holding themselves together just long enough to be seen. Pedestals and plinths are not separate but part of the work itself. I build precariousness into their very design to evoke a shift, slip, or giving way. That sense of imminent collapse held in suspension echoes the urban spaces in which we live: sites of construction and decay, ambition and neglect, endurance and erosion.

In the works on paper, I create scenes around mundane objects: a piece of styrofoam deteriorating on the sidewalk, scaffolding covers, a scrap of bubble wrap. These are small moments, but I treat them like protagonists: witnesses to the world around them.

These everyday forms and materials become vessels of memory and presence. Coming from a culture that reveres preservation of statues, ceramics, and ancient stones, I have developed a sensitivity to how materials carry history. I am especially interested in packing materials: transient forms with architectonic qualities, designed solely to protect what we deem valuable. They mark time through their wear, intent and impermanence, anchoring traces of human experience within the built environment. I want to hold on to these overlooked fragments that reveal our histories, shifting them from the temporary and disposable to something preserved, seen, and remembered.

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