What it takes 

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. It unfolds gradually, shaped by moments of clarity and doubt. Each transition becomes a continuous negotiation between resilience and uncertainty, adaptation and loss — an ongoing process of self-construction and erosion. We break apart in order to reassemble. We let go of one version of ourselves to become another. In a world where change is constant, deconstruction is not only a method but also a condition of contemporary existence.

Finding a sense of self takes time; it is formed through experiences that are difficult in the moment, yet they build strength and resilience shaped by experience.

This body of work explores the emotional complexity of transformation through abstract compositions and emerges from periods of significant personal transition. Handmade paper forms trace the shifts that followed these changes, holding them in a physical state rather than describing them. I work intuitively with paper, responding directly to its resistance and fragility. By bending and shaping it into three-dimensional structures, I translate internal movement into a visual language.

Paper is an especially resonant material within this work. It is fragile yet resistant, capable of holding pressure while still shifting under touch. It records hesitation, decision, and change on its surface. Working with it, I am not illustrating transformation but working within it.