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My practice explores masculinity through acts of care, attentiveness, and reflection, proposing an alternative understanding of what it means to occupy a so-called “masculine” space. Rather than reinforcing narratives of aggression or dominance, I focus on vulnerability and openness, asserting that strength can emerge through empathy, restraint, and transformation. This inquiry runs consistently through my work, from intimate textile pieces to large-scale installations, inviting viewers to reconsider how social constructs might be reimagined.
Care is not only a subject but also a method. Through sewing, painting, layering, and other forms of meticulous, time-based labor, identity becomes something constructed, repaired, and reconfigured. Each fragment of fabric or layer of pigment functions as a site where personal experience intersects with collective memory. By interweaving material, color, and space, I explore how subtle gestures can generate new structures and open pathways for change.
My work engages the threshold between physical and emotional space — a place where fragility and resilience coexist. I understand this tension as a contemporary form of the sublime: quiet, embodied, and attentive rather than monumental or forceful. Healing and transformation, in my view, do not arise from control, but from care. Each stitch and surface becomes a metaphor for reworking the cultural fabric that shapes identity and belonging.