ARTIST STATEMENT    

Unfolding across distinct bodies of work with a shared conceptual foundation, my practice explores the human condition, addressing mortality, control, visibility, resilience, and cultural and intergenerational conditioning through a feminist lens. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and film, I draw on narrative strategies informed by my background as a storyteller to construct works that are personal and at times autobiographical, while extending beyond individual experience. As an example of this, I create immersive, set-like installations that function as narrative environments while containing distinct works. I also work in living sculpture, a conceptual practice that brings together performance, sculptural form, and other media. 

My sculpture practice incorporates vintage found objects, particularly those associated with childhood, alongside handmade forms. I frequently use idealized mannequin fragments, garments, and domestic materials as stand-ins for the body, invoking culturally constructed Western ideals of femininity and appearance. Domestic objects, clothing, food, and corporeal fragments function as repositories of cultural memory and psychological projection, carrying traces of inherited belief systems and personal histories. Through their arrangement and transformation, these materials become vehicles through which I investigate identity, objectification, bodily autonomy, intergenerational imprint, and impermanence.

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My paintings move between abstraction and figuration, saturation and restraint, expression and control. Guided by an intuitive process, I employ simplified forms, graphic black linework, and surreal figurative distortions to construct images in which bodies emerge, fragment, and transform. I sign my work Dagu, the name I gave myself as a child, as a way of honoring intuition, play, and the freedom of self-invention that lies at the heart of my creative practice.​​