Living away from my place of origin, my practice emerges from a personal inquiry into the meaning of home: how it is felt, remembered, and carried within the body, the land, and across time and space. Rooted in childhood memories and gestures of care shared with my Mother, my recent body of work translates these intimate recollections into sculptural forms that explore the domestic and the home as a living organism, capable of transformation, adaptation, and renewal.
My making unfolds through ritualised, meditative gestures, repeated bodily lines that curve and return such as braiding, weaving, tracing, and inscribing, where memory, body, material intertwine through cycles of return and repetition.
Working with bodily-proximate materials such as Transylvanian horsehair, human hair, satin ribbons, and caraway seeds, I investigate how sculpture might operate as an expanded field of relations between body, material, memory, and site that bear the inscriptions of lived experiences. Scent and breath extend this inquiry beyond the visual, becoming media for cyclical exchanges between the body and the atmosphere.
Influenced by Mona Hatoum, Doris Salcedo, and Olivia Bax, domestic and utilitarian objects are reimagined as extensions of the self, activated through intervention, tension, and movement, sculptural bodies-in-waiting where material memory and mobility converge.
Through a mix of easily repositioned and fixed installations that activate a sense of localness via site-responsive, situated encounters, I explore sculpture as a processual and performative field. Ritual-like gestures, residue, and temporal suspension position home as a lived and evolving encounter shaped by duration, site, and cyclical return.
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