I create sculptures, installations, land-art interventions and performances. My practice is informed by musings in the philosophies, the sciences, cosmologies, and literature. I am interested in the physical, metaphorical and mystical entanglements within the continuum of the human, the beyond-human, and the unknown.
I venture into natural environments to hand-mold black aluminum foil onto boulders, branches and root systems, collecting records of the planet’s surface as one would graze a body’s: its skin, folds, wrinkles and arteries, in constant turbulent transformation arising from its pressurized core to its uppermost continental stratas, continually scarred and mending. My land-art interventions function as therapeutic field-work intended to reconcile with my refugee parents’ traumatic relationship with the great outdoors. I further convert my land-art objects by merging them with materials ranging in translucency from paper to steel, imbuing them with silence, solace and strength.
Through the slow process of touch, I commune with the physical world and the elementary forces that assail and sculpt the planet, aiming to elicit awe and meditative introspection as means to reunite with the very same mysterious cosmic forces that shape our humanhood.
I was born and raised in Tio'tia:ke/Mooniyang (Montreal, Canada). I earned an MFA in Creative Visual Arts at Cornell University (2022) and am a graduate of Concordia University (BFA in Studio Arts, 2019) and McGill University (PhD in Chemistry, 2015).