By combining observed and imagined perspectives, with my work, I investigate the relationship between humans and the rest of nature, and our shared experiences of consciousness, embodiment and coexistence. I aim to make work that invites viewers to find ways to extend beyond themselves, into a more expansive sense of ‘we’. I make to ask questions, and to question the questions; to be more conscious of the differences; to embrace the wonders of ecological entanglements in search for what lies beyond facts.
To coexist.
My work is conceptually layered and made from accumulations of layered marks. I fly over terrains and oceans, dive into ripples and vortexes, crawl with fungi and roots, glide through weather patterns and migrations. I concentrate and compress human and non-human symbiosis and encapsulate it by using Chinese ink, oils, pigments, charcoal and graphite. The layers and marks come from visible traces of ecological processes such as crevasses, shifts in ocean currents, rock formations, and dead corals. They communicate, fuse, signify and contradict.
I experience water as a medium and a force, and as the subject of my research. In my recent work, I intend to find ways to reconsider water, and raise questions about the massive shifts happening in Earth’s water bodies. As my explorations with water as a copious and conscious medium continues, I am also following this ever-shifting edge of water which both feeds and drowns life. Water as political lines that are often used to reify the nation-state. Water as a map. From cells to molecules, water, at the center of all entanglements. Unfathomable, but undeniably the ultimate access point to connect, interact and think with the rest of nature.
