Processes of (un)becoming questions our behavioral patterns, habits, and rituals as an inquiry into one’s state of solitude. Consisting of eight large format conté drawings, four silver gelatin printed photographs, and a hand-stitched artist book, this body of work is a reflection on what it means to become, and at once unbecome – someone, something, or a part of ourselves.
The conté drawings explore mark-making through intuitive acts of repetition. Requiring a physical, full-body commitment to gesture, the drawings simulate habitual behavior we often surrender to. The series questions the progressions and regressions of one’s behavior that develops over time as a means to better understand the state of one’s mind and solitude.
A series of four photographs depicting scenes of natural and man-made environments: rock that is powerless to the effect of water and time, finite winter light on a mountain, the element of wind among seaside grasses, and a house that is being either constructed or deconstructed, like that of becoming and unbecoming. These moments of stillness and silence offer space for further dialogue to question our tendencies, patterns, habits, and rituals.
The final component is an artist book composed of layers that vary from transparent to opaque, woven together with excerpts of text from Paul Auster’s The Invention of Solitude. Through its solely stitched construction, this work offers a meditation on one’s experience of solitude through elements of time, consciousness, and memory. The book portrays an aspect of past, present, and future in its traces of gestural marks, photographic test strips, deliberate compositions, and careful yet inherently violent acts of stitching. It contemplates the effects of behavioral patterns over time. Through its time-based nature, the book is a fermentation on being vulnerable yet resilient in both becoming and unbecoming.
exhibited at im Schaufenster in Basel, September 2024 and Photobastei in Zürich, May 2024
Fall 2023–Spring 2024
Basel, Switzerland
The conté drawings explore mark-making through intuitive acts of repetition. Requiring a physical, full-body commitment to gesture, the drawings simulate habitual behavior we often surrender to. The series questions the progressions and regressions of one’s behavior that develops over time as a means to better understand the state of one’s mind and solitude.
A series of four photographs depicting scenes of natural and man-made environments: rock that is powerless to the effect of water and time, finite winter light on a mountain, the element of wind among seaside grasses, and a house that is being either constructed or deconstructed, like that of becoming and unbecoming. These moments of stillness and silence offer space for further dialogue to question our tendencies, patterns, habits, and rituals.
The final component is an artist book composed of layers that vary from transparent to opaque, woven together with excerpts of text from Paul Auster’s The Invention of Solitude. Through its solely stitched construction, this work offers a meditation on one’s experience of solitude through elements of time, consciousness, and memory. The book portrays an aspect of past, present, and future in its traces of gestural marks, photographic test strips, deliberate compositions, and careful yet inherently violent acts of stitching. It contemplates the effects of behavioral patterns over time. Through its time-based nature, the book is a fermentation on being vulnerable yet resilient in both becoming and unbecoming.
exhibited at im Schaufenster in Basel, September 2024 and Photobastei in Zürich, May 2024
Fall 2023–Spring 2024
Basel, Switzerland
