ARTIST STATEMENT

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My practice explores the human condition through a feminist lens. The work unfolds across distinct series that share a cohesive conceptual foundation, engaging themes of mortality, visibility, fear, control, and resilience. Repetition and monochrome operate as formal and psychological devices, evoking the imprint of cultural conditioning and the persistent presence of mortality.

My sculpture practice incorporates vintage found objects, particularly from childhood, alongside fabricated forms, frequently using mannequin parts as stand-ins for the body. Domestic objects, clothing, food, and corporeal fragments are employed for their cultural and psychological charge, becoming vehicles to examine gender identity and expectations, objectification, bodily autonomy, intergenerational imprint, and impermanence. The work is deeply personal, examining childhood feminist identity and expression, ambition, and fear.

Grounded in figuration, my paintings move deliberately between eye-popping color and muted tonal palettes, as well as between expressive, frenetic works and quiet, controlled ones. These shifts operate symbolically, reflecting disparate parts of myself and oscillating between exposure and concealment, intensity and restraint. I sign my work Dagu, the name I called myself as a child, to honor my intuitive process and childlike exploration.​