The Shape of Memory 2025-2026

In The Shape of Memory, form, surface, and emotion converge through tactile processes of layering, stitching, burning, and wrapping. These works move beyond the traditional picture plane, incorporating shaped substrates—cardboard, illustration board, and painted papers—that are transformed through physical manipulation. Ripped, rusted, sewn, and scorched, each piece holds traces of what came before. The series explores how memory is stored not only in image but in material: fragile, altered, repaired. There is no fixed narrative—only the suggestion of remnants and rituals, of what we carry and what we reconstruct.