Other Projects

Other Projects

A selection of interdisciplinary projects across textile, print, sculpture, image, video, and bioplastic installation — material experiments that move between body, breath, rest, and the fragility of nature.

01 / TEXTILE & PRINT / 2022

Pressing Matters

This work explores themes of body and autonomy through a series of textile sculptures and collagraph prints. The oppressive weight and complex emotions surrounding women’s struggles are explored by using a print press to crush and flatten three-dimensional body parts onto paper. Each mark left behind represents resistance and resilience, merging sculpture and printmaking into textured impressions.

These imprints reflect on societal constructs, agency, and our bodies—contemplating the ongoing struggle for bodily autonomy and the forces of resistance that shape our existence as women.

Pressing Matter
Pressing Matter
Wire hanger, nylon, tulle, glue · 2022
Pressing Matter
Pressing Matter
Nylon textile, glue, ink · variable dimensions
Pressing Matter
Pressing Matter
Collagraph on Rives BFK · 30 × 44 in
Bikini Medicine
Bikini Medicine
Akua ink on Rives BFK · 40 × 26 in · Ed. 1/1
I Don’t Want to Wear This Anymore
I Don’t Want to Wear This Anymore
Akua ink on Rives BFK · 26 × 40 in · Ed. 1/1
Torn
Torn
Akua ink on Rives BFK · 30 × 44 in · Ed. 1/1

02 / RICE PAPER / SCULPTURE

Pneuma

Pneuma are ephemeral sculptures crafted from rice paper, embodying the transient nature of breath and the subtle beauty of respiration. The pieces are inspired by the delicate balance between life and the invisible forces that sustain and destroy us. Through them I explore stillness, the fragility of life, and impermanence.

Pneuma
Pneuma
Rice paper and pigment · 30 in diameter
Halitus
Halitus
Rice paper and pigment · 30 in diameter
Aether
Aether
Rice paper and pigment · 30 in diameter

03 / IMAGE, TEXTILE & VIDEO

Sleep Studies

A mapping of daily routines and life moments—images and video that express the sensorial space of sleep as a form of painting within the mind. Using the bed as a symbol of domestic architecture and bed sheets as a shifting sculptural landscape, the work invites contemplation of the intimate and often overlooked aspects of daily life.

During sleep we experience a nightly internal exile where constructs, displacement, otherness, and power structures cease to exist and all is possible. Sleep Studies frames the sleep state as a realm of self-agency and transformation.

Thanatosis
Thanatosis
Inkjet on archival paper · 36 × 24 in · with video sequence
Open Channel 1
Open Channel 1
Sublimation ink on textile · 8 × 3 ft
Open Channel 2
Open Channel 2
Sublimation ink on textile · 8 × 3 ft
Open Channel 3
Open Channel 3
Sublimation ink on textile · 8 × 3 ft
Open Channel 4
Open Channel 4
Sublimation ink on textile · 8 × 3 ft
Hypnopompia
Hypnopompia
Inkjet on archival paper · 19 × 13 in
Hypnagogia
Hypnagogia
Inkjet on archival paper · 19 × 13 in

04 / BIOPLASTIC / INSTALLATION · 2024

Source Origin

A response to our collective disconnect from nature and insatiable consumption, this installation incorporates natural materials as a metaphor for the tensions between nature and culture. Transparency is achieved through biodegradable bioplastics that resemble glass, latex, and resin; using scale, colour, and geometry, the work layers transparent and opaque forms as an interplay between space, light, and materiality.

The material experimentation behind it explores the fragility of nature through biodegradable media. Bioplastic made from gelatin and glycerin was scaled and tested across formulations and colour applications, producing translucent flexible sheets and opaque rigid structures. The organic mutation of the material over time stands as a response to power structures and the impermanence of all things.

Material studies
Bioplastic Colour Studies
Bioplastic Colour Studies
Neutral, iridescent, natural · biomaterial panels with pigment · 32 × 11 in
Transparency & Opacity Studies
Transparency & Opacity Studies
Biomaterial panels with pigment · 32 × 11 in
Malleability Studies
Malleability Studies
Biomaterial panels with pigment · 32 × 11 in
Foam Studies
Foam Studies
Biomaterial panels with pigment · 32 × 11 in
Installation — Source Origin (2024)
Source Origin
Source Origin
Bioplastic installation · variable dimensions
Source Origin — front view
Source Origin — front view
Archaic Future, FIT Exhibition
Source Origin — side view
Source Origin — side view
Archaic Future, FIT Exhibition
Source Origin — detail
Source Origin — detail
Bioplastic installation

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