The images and installation explore tension between presence and absence, centering on radiation therapy masks used during the artist’s aunt’s four-year battle with cancer. These masks, form-fitted to the contours of her body, retain her shape but none of her being, embodying a poignant dissonance: the intimacy of their form contrasted with the emptiness they hold.

 

A projection of one mask deconstructs its rigidity, allowing its form to escape into light—an ephemeral yet grounded evolution of a bodily fossil. Pencil etchings extend this exploration, tracing fragments of familiarity that never coalesce into a complete whole. Hidden within the marks are poetic fragments, words wrestling with the dissonance between familiarity and detachment.

 

Vials of dried flowers draw parallels to forms of artificial preservation and transformation of life. Scarred by their histories, the vials evoke the tension between the remnants of past lives and their lingering echoes. They elongate timelines until they bleed into one another. Together, these elements traverse a corporeal cartography—a shifting topography of embodiment, memory, and afterlives. Probing for where a person’s essence moves in their absence and how traces of connection endure.