Documentation as Lament

Material Elegies

I witness loss through materials that carry their own memory.

Through vulnerable surfaces and deliberate attention, I translate data, memory, and ecological testimony into elegy. A practice I describe as documentation as lament. Where scientific record-keeping seeks clarity and preservation, my work embraces fragility and impermanence as methodology.

Each investigation selects materials for conceptual necessity. Paper suspends like coral lamellae. Canvas fades like pressed flowers. Panels fracture like ice. The material does not represent loss – it embodies it.

My practice unfolds across two registers: the intimate mourning of personal grief and the planetary mourning of ecological collapse.

Framework

Personal Elegies

Investigating individual grief, memory, and transformation through intimate material witness.

Ecological Elegies

Investigating planetary loss across marine, botanical, and polar systems – each requiring different material responses.

These bodies of work investigate loss across different scales – from personal mourning to planetary ecological collapse.

The boundaries of existence captivate me: torn edges, worn surfaces, fragile transitions. Beauty and loss are not opposites but mirrors.

To create in an age of extinction means holding space for mourning and meaning simultaneously.

My work renders the vanishing tangible – transforming absence into presence.

I make the impermanent touchable.