Works on Paper

CHIMERA

“I make this work because these are the questions that matter most and are spoken about least. The work I create gives them form, weight, and beauty.”

This body of work emerged from a personal inquiry into psychological attachment, relationality and the permeable boundaries between self and other. The anchoring of this exploration is the symbol of the placenta: literally, the organ of radical dependency that sustains and mediates …the symbol of human interconnectedness, maternal origin, and the blurring of boundaries between self and other.

The placenta’s paradoxical nature structures both the conceptual framework and material logic of these works. I am not illustrating the placenta but allowing both its relational liminality and otherness to guide my process: the layering, the transitional spaces, the marks that both obscure and reveal.

The exhibition takes its title, Chimera, from an ancient Greek word denoting an impossible hybrid—a creature composed of incompatible parts, and by extension, an illusion or unattainable hope.

This multiplicity of meaning mirrors the layered nature of the work itself: the biological reality of chimerism (the presence of genetically distinct cells within a single body), the psychological terrain of individuation, and the material synthesis of my creative process.

Chimera names both our condition and our illusion: as composite beings we desire what we can never achieve—the unified self that was never whole, the separation that can never be complete.

“I am interested in making the invisible visible — the psychological architecture of being human: how we are formed through attachment, how we grieve what we can never fully separate from, and how we carry others within us. This extends beyond the human — to the earth as mother, to the other-than-human world from which we also emerge and to which we also belong.”