Throughout the past decade, I’ve explored personal and collective belief systems, the interplay between matter and meaning, and the strive to be remembered in the face of mortality.
Using video, performance, drawing, installation, sculpture, and writing, I positioned myself in the shadow of structures that attempt to freeze time, but inevitably fail as time moves on and values and ideologies shift. I focused on public monuments as objects that embody these changes.
During this time, my life underwent profound transformations: I immigrated, married, became a mother, and lost both my parents. These pivotal experiences of love and loss led me to focus on drawing with ink and forge a deeper connection to healing through art.
I use natural inks and watercolors on paper and silk. I infuse the inks with herbal remedies that carry therapeutic properties and leave energetic and alchemical marks in the drawings.
Ink, with its life force and unpredictability, allows a dance between my intentions and the brush’s guidance. I navigate the balance between control and surrender, channeling transformation and intuition.
I perceive the drawings as pieces in a puzzle, mini monuments that commemorate emotions, thoughts, and states of mind. A bridge between my psyche and the world.
