What it takes (2025)

What does it take to adapt — to move between languages, cultures, or ways of being? These questions resist fixed answers, as transformation is never singular. Transitions unfold gradually, shaped by moments of clarity and doubt. They involve a continual negotiation between resilience and uncertainty, adaptation and loss — an ongoing process of self-construction and erasure. In a world where change is constant, deconstruction becomes not only a method but a condition of contemporary existence. We break apart in order to reassemble. We let go of one version of ourselves to become another. The work lives in that space, not of resolution, but of becoming. This series explores the emotional complexity of transformation. I translate these shifts into visual form by intuitively bending paper, creating three-dimensional works in which the boundaries between visibility and concealment, shared identity and private self, are blurred.