Unbecoming
The outermost layer is not who we are, but who we are taught to become. Each successive ring records another expectation absorbed into the self until individuality yields to familiarity. Beneath this shared exterior, the core remains concealed rather than erased. Unbecoming asks whether becoming is truly an act of…
Deposits
The spiral is not a beginning — it is an archive. Every ring holds what has already been lived, compressed but not erased. Around it, new threads emerge and loop, not replacing what came before but joining it, becoming part of the same accumulating structure. This is not identity remade.…
Beneath Becoming
Beneath Becoming considers the hidden structures that sustain identity. What appears as a unified self is held together by layers of memory, responsibility, expectation, and experience accumulated over time. Like the bark hidden beneath a canopy of leaves, these foundations remain largely unseen, yet continue to shape and support what…
Adornments of Adulthood
Adornments of Adulthood examines the quiet accumulations of adult life—responsibilities, memories, expectations, and compromises that settle upon us over time. What appears as ornament gradually reveals itself as residue, burden, and transformation. The surface becomes a landscape of experiences that both conceal and define the self.
Knowing the World
This work explores how a golden, imaginative mind can gradually become mechanical through lived experience. A childlike figure emerges within the composition, gazing into an empty mechanized hand that holds the invisible weight of memory, conditioning, and experience. Though unseen, that burden reshapes the body and the ways we act.…