Documentation as Lament
MATERIAL ELEGIES“Material investigations into loss, fragility, and ecological witness.”
Material Elegies
Material Elegies is an ongoing practice shaped through sustained attention.
Across painting, paper sculpture, installation, photography and artist books, I explore how materials can hold memory, witness transformation and make visible the fragile conditions of change.
Rather than illustrating ideas, each collection develops its own material language. Paper, pigment, cloth, resin and found surfaces are chosen not only for what they represent, but for how they behave over time.
Each collection begins with sustained attention to a particular condition, material or place. Together they form a continuing conversation about memory, transformation and the fragile relationships between people, materials and the more-than-human world.
Together these collections form a continuing practice of observation, asking how attention itself might become a form of care.
COLLECTIONS
Investigations across personal and ecological systems through fragile material structures.
Material Elegies is an ongoing body of work exploring how memory, ecological change and disappearance can be held in material form. Each collection begins with sustained attention to a different subject, allowing materials to become both witness and record.
Together these collections form an evolving practice of observation through painting, sculpture, installation and artist books.
Each collection asks a different question while remaining part of the same ongoing enquiry.
What Remains
Painted surfaces exploring
botanical disappearance and fragility.
Spectral Taxonomy
Coral bleaching rendered
through layered paper lamellae.
Metamorphosis
Personal grief translated through
origami butterfly installations.
Fugitive Landscapes
Landscapes thatattends to what is passing,
unstable or already beginning to disappear.
These collections do not seek to preserve what is disappearing.
They seek to remain with it long enough for another kind of encounter to become possible.
I make the impermanent touchable.