My practice explores how everyday materials transform and gain new meaning when recontextualized alongside each other. Embracing experimentation, I push the boundaries of collage through the use of found objects—mementos of unknown lives, anonymous histories, fragments of people and moments we may never know.
I work intuitively, layering ink, oil pastel, textiles, and found materials to build multimedia collages that highlight subtle details—curves, seams, repetitions, and organic lines. Responding to color, texture, and shape as they merge in harmonious or discordant dialogues, I let the materials guide the making. Deconstructed garments are layered, then drawn over with oil pastel and stitched, introducing expressive, organic forms inspired by flowers, branches, and natural rhythms. Maps, found writings, and gathered papers are collaged and printed as monotypes as I move fluidly between intention and chance.
Layered materials and repeated impressions—from patterned textiles to block-printed papers—suggest the passage of time, each component an experience, a moment, a life event. My process mirrors the way memory accumulates—uneven, stitched together, frayed along the edges, yet still carrying vivid traces of time and place.
