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

Life Entanglements
My work has been my way to handle life events that at times felt larger than I could handle. Inner and outer transgressions of my mind and body, of natures both molecular, psychological and physical dispositions and sexual, has left the fields of my mind and body, scratched, torn and fragmented and with no other option than to treat this life as a reassembly of identity or existence.

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

Sensory Experience
Layers of paint, photographic transfers and burnt 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 breathing, observation and listening as ways of inhabiting time. Each work unique in its reflection of a particular moment of time, attempts to open onto a multilayered space - subtle, resonant, and present - yet carrying the quiet power of full attentiveness to the unfolding real life complexities translated onto and embedded into the work.