ACTS OF ATTENTIONS • Mark makings: Visual examination of surface, front/back/inbetwen

Material Engagement
My work navigates the layered terrains of memory and perception, weaving painting, drawing, textiles, and photography into a visual cartography of experience. At its core lies the idea of estrangement as a blueprint - invisible frameworks tracing and mark making the unseen architectures of mind, body, and place. Through tactile materials, I explore thresholds between intimacy and distance, presence and absence - liminal spaces where unbelonging and estrangement become forms of recognition, through layering, photographic transfers, merging, piercing, scratching, winding, burning, drilling, and knotting, and difference is honoured without erasure.

Sensory Experience
Layers of paint, photographic transfers and stitched surfaces create tactile textures, and become maps of shifting states - inscribed and dissolved in tactile form. These layers invite bodily resonance, where touch acts as a conduit for both connection and its absence. Emerging from a lifelong engagement with social ambiguity, my practice embraces existential, philosophical, psychoanalytical, theological, and poetic concepts, focusing on paradox and uncertainty (John Donne) and negative capability (John Keats) as pathways. I dwell in uncertainty, suspension, and unfixity, using observation and listening as ways of inhabiting time. Each work attempts to open onto a contemplative space - subtle, resonant, and present - yet carrying the quiet power of full attentiveness within the unfolding complexities of the work.