Between Body and Place

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These works are contemplations on belonging. We build the places we live in, and we need to fit them. Over time, the spaces we live in become part of us. We shape them as they shape us. We leave traces on them, as they leave traces on us. 

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I imagine spaces as living beings. The layers of traces left behind by former inhabitants are proof of that life. Through them, I explore the intertwined feelings of belonging and exclusion, how spaces remember us, and how we, in turn, carry them within us.

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There are moments when a space no longer fits, when what once felt home becomes unfamiliar or uninhabitable. Perhaps it is circumstance, perhaps they simply didn't fit anymore.  I often take a physical part of it with me, as a metaphor of the traces it left on me, as I leave part of me behind.

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These sculptures give form to that exchange: the discourse between body and place, belonging and exclusion. They ask what it means to fit, and what new shapes emerge when we do, or do not.