As a child, I collected stones, shells, and hotel soaps. I’ve never outgrown this curiosity for objects -if anything, it has deepened and become central to my artistic practice. The act of looking and finding, much like a beachcomber combing the shore, is often the first step in my work.

Each object I find carries a quiet potential. I question its meaning through sculpture: I pull and tug at its form, I cast it, I sculpt its negative space, I write with it. These gestures are not attempts to define the object, but to enter into a conversation with it -to understand something about myself, the world around me, and the spaces in between.

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