Drawing is at the centre of my practice, alongside text and other forms of making. I use drawing and making to change what cannot otherwise be changed.
Making cannot alter loss, longing, memory or endings, but it can change the form in which they continue to exist. Loss can become an object. Longing can be folded, drawn or held. Endings can be given wings, opening onto the possibility of another form of life. Through making, an experience is not explained or resolved, but transformed into something that can exist in material form.
This movement from one state to another runs throughout my work. Sometimes the transformation is visible within the image; at other times, it takes place through the act of making itself. Bodies, birds, objects and words become ways of carrying grief, loss, longing and memory without fixing them into a single meaning.
I am interested in the tension where beauty and sadness coexist, and where memory, imagination and reality overlap—spaces where certainty begins to break down. The work remains open at that point of change, allowing one thing to retain the trace of another.