My recent work explores healing, transformation, and renewal. Through intricately carved and layered paper compositions, I create dimensional forms that give physical shape to these abstract concepts and ideas. Drawing on both nature and memory, these unfolding shapes suggest imagined landscapes where fragments of color and form emerge, dissolve, and reemerge.
These works explore the beauty of permanence and impermanence, change and regeneration. Forms appear to blossom, expand, and dissolve across the surface, evoking cycles of endurance and renewal. The works emphasize peace, beauty, and the enduring presence of memory.
I am drawn to paper as an unassuming material that is both strong and resilient. At once fragile and enduring, it mirrors the emotional landscape that inspires the work, where vulnerability and resilience live side by side. For each handmade piece, I carve hundreds—sometimes thousands—of precise knife cuts into painted paper. I design, paint, cut, and arrange these elements like fragments of a puzzle, allowing individual shapes and colors to flow into a larger visual landscape. Each form becomes a trace and impression of nature, memory, and the ebb and flow of transformation.