Artist statement

Breathing with what has been cast off

I explore being alive through the materials and sensations that belong to living bodies: the viscous surfaces of insects, fish and octopuses, the movement of muscle, and the uneven texture of skin.

These images, together with traces that have left the body — mucus, sweat and blood — become unfamiliar forms. Beginning in painting, this inquiry extends into AI and 3D media. The digital space becomes a laboratory for weaving together different lives and sensations, giving shape to creatures at the threshold of life and death, attraction and unease.

Perhaps I do not want to let dying things simply pass away. I want to hold on to the small traces they leave behind, and let them breathe and move again.