My studio is a laboratory for experimentation, and my practice is led by play. I make collages, assemblages and sculptures with hand and machine-embroidered textiles, old clothes, family discards, natural and human-made found objects, wood, chain, hot glass and whatever else the work calls for. I intuitively combine matter that surprises and moves me. The objects I make are reflective guides; they listen and gather fragments of my inner and outer life and shape them into forms I couldn’t have predicted. They feel both unfamiliar and anchored by my presence. My practice gives me space to sort through my life and to move between the material world and the pull of what lives beyond language.

 

This work is an invitation to dwell with materiality while exploring how bodies, both human and more-than-human, take shape through the processes of transformation, vulnerability and care. Hands, sleeves and fragments of bodies are recurring symbols. Sleeves act as partial stand-ins for the body, they carry gestures, they reach, hold, and show absence. Detached from their original function, they become soft architectures, conduits for memory.

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These works reject the idea of a single, stable identity and underline the porousness of the material world. In doing so, they articulate a refusal of fixed binaries: self and other, freedom and constraint, the grounded and the otherworldly. I take pleasure in ornamenting my pieces as I would my kin - an act of care and exuberance that signals a shift from individualism toward an ethics of interconnection and shared vulnerability. Queer joy is always at the fore - it reframes care as expansive, communal, and resistant to oppression, where joy itself becomes a practice of survival, solidarity, and relational flourishing.