What is your work about?

My work explores how internal experience and the external world continuously shape one another. I’m interested in how we perceive what is around us through memory, belief, and emotion, and how those perceptions shift over time.

Within this, I think about identity — both as something we inherit and something we construct. There are clear frameworks we grow up within, whether individual or cultural, that define belonging and separation. But over time, through experience, memory, and reflection, these boundaries begin to soften. The work often sits in that space of transition, where identity becomes less fixed and more open to change.

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What draws you to the materials you use?

I am drawn to materials that carry visible traces of time — surfaces that have been shaped, worn, or altered through their interaction with the world.

These materials hold a kind of memory within them. When I bring them into the studio, they enter into a dialogue with my own internal landscape. In this exchange, they begin to reflect not only change, but also how meaning — and identity — is layered, held, and reshaped over time.

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How do you begin a piece?

Most works begin with observation — something seen, felt, or experienced that stays with me. It could be a material, a form, or a moment that carries a certain emotional weight.

From there, I sketch, write, or work directly on the surface. The process moves between intuition and reflection, allowing what feels defined to shift, and what feels uncertain to take form.

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What role does the studio play in your practice?

The studio is not just a physical space, but a meeting point between inner and outer realities.

What I encounter outside — in nature, in materials, in everyday life — is filtered through my internal experience. At the same time, working within the studio reshapes how I see and understand what is around me. It becomes a space where these exchanges take place, and where fixed ways of seeing — including ideas of identity — can begin to loosen and reconfigure.

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How does time influence your work?

Time is present in both the materials and the process. I am interested in how things change — slowly, subtly, or all at once — and how those changes are experienced both in the moment and in retrospect.

Through this, identity also shifts. What once feels clearly defined can become more fluid, shaped by memory, experience, and the passage of time.

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What do you hope the viewer experiences?

I hope the work creates a moment of pause — a space where the viewer can notice their own internal landscape in relation to what they see.

Rather than offering fixed meaning, the work invites a way of being with change — where perception can shift, and where identity can be experienced with more openness, beyond rigid definitions of belonging.