Confetti of the Mind
I work primarily with magazines, approaching them as anthropological documents that reflect the desires, values, fantasies, and anxieties of the culture that produced them. Images of luxury, ritual, beauty, and idealized bodies become source material for exploring appearance and the cultural narratives that shape how we construct and present ourselves.
My process begins with a kind of excavation. Images are cut apart, removed from their original contexts, categorized, and recombined. Bodies drawn from advertising are particularly compelling because they function as both individuals and idealized cultural props, carrying assumptions about beauty, gender, desire, and identity.
Ambiguity has long been central to my work. I am interested in the tension between the familiar and unrecognizable, and in how new relationships can destabilize the original meanings of recognizable images. These collisions create a space where recognition remains possible but certainty does not, allowing mystery and unexpected narratives to emerge.
In the Confetti of the Mind series, small, disparate fragments accumulate into dense, pulsating forms suspended against black grounds. The works consider identity as composite rather than fixed, assembled from cultural imagery, memory, desire, and experience. Emerging from the surrounding void, these patchwork forms suggest a self continually being constructed and reconstructed. Individual fragments retain traces of their previous meanings while becoming part of something larger, unstable, and newly invented.