Grounded in a sensitivity to the fragmented and hybrid nature of contemporary existence, my work investigates how multiplicity gives rise to inconsistencies, contradictions, and paradoxes. These conditions resist linearity and binary thinking,
instead proposing a fluid and chaotic state in which layered references—personal, historical, transnational and cross-cultural—collide and dissolve. Meaning in this context is not fixed but contingent—shifting across time, geographies, and emotional registers.
In navigating the noise and fragmentation of the present, I employ mixed-media sculpture as my primary visual language, and approach subjects of interest through a comparative studies framework. I am drawn to how narrative structures and collective belief systems are continuously rewritten through cultural entanglement and displacement.
My current research and ongoing project is The Hero with a Thousand Faces, is based on Joseph Campbell’s comparative mythological study to explore the symbolic potential of the hero’s journey across personal, collective, and intercultural dimensions.
In navigating the noise and fragmentation of the present, I employ mixed-media sculpture as my primary visual language, and approach subjects of interest through a comparative studies framework. I am drawn to how narrative structures and collective belief systems are continuously rewritten through cultural entanglement and displacement.
My current research and ongoing project is The Hero with a Thousand Faces, is based on Joseph Campbell’s comparative mythological study to explore the symbolic potential of the hero’s journey across personal, collective, and intercultural dimensions.
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