selected works

Contact Zones

I often use transparent mesh from discarded window screens, a material that evokes the experience of navigating multiple spaces simultaneously—a reality for many immigrants. The mesh serves as a metaphor for the various cultural and societal systems we must traverse. By cutting, bending, melting, and painting the mesh, I reclaim a sense of control and order within these systems. Creating new scenes with this material reminds me that social structures, while seemingly rigid, are malleable and transformable.

Incorporating found objects grounds the work in reality, and the viewer completes the piece by engaging with its fictive elements. Windows function as apertures, revealing new fields of view where none previously existed. Light interacting with the mesh creates shifting shadows, representing hidden depths and spaces not immediately perceived. The playful gestures of children in the work hint at the fragility and emergence of memory, suggesting that even within rigid systems, new narratives can take shape and flourish.

Sculpture and Printmaking

Printmaking