Artist Statement

My work explores the entanglement of human systems and vegetal life, focusing on how growth, decay, and invasion unsettle structures of order. I am drawn to invasive and parasitic forms—organisms that thrive by occupying existing frameworks rather than creating new ones—and I use this logic as both a metaphor and a material strategy. Working with fired fragments, press-moulded elements, and scavenged remnants from earlier sculptures, I build hybrid bodies that resist singular authorship and fixed identity.

These fragments are catalogued, stored, and reactivated within new works, forming a kind of living archive from which sculptures and installations emerge. Soft clay is pierced, overgrown, and interrupted by hardened ceramic parts, mirroring how ecological systems infiltrate architecture, bodies, and histories. Busts, vessels, and botanical forms become sites of tension, where ornamental traditions collide with unruly growth.

Rather than depicting nature as something external to humanity, my work stages moments of mutual transformation. Figures appear caught in the midst of being overtaken—neither fully human nor fully vegetal—suggesting a future shaped by ecological pressure, adaptation, and hybridity. Through these assemblages, I consider how systems designed to contain life—museums, vessels, bodies, gardens—ultimately become hosts for forces they cannot control.