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Different domain

Environment

Impression

Material thinking

Meaning expansion

Metaphor

Metaphorical leap

Metonymic

Metonymy

Noise

Out-of-placeness

Overlookedness

Peripheral

Proximity

Same domain

Domain matrix

Sensory connections

Sustainability

Synecdoche

Taxonomic

Tolerance 

Transferral

Unfolding

 

 

 

 

 

 

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States of Being

States of Being inhabits a space between drawing and sculpture — surfaces pressed, rubbed, and coaxed into forms that hover at the edge of recognition. The works share an interest in what materials hold after a presence has passed through them.

Former Selves (2026), Japanese Kozo bookbinding repair tissue, Height 12 cm x width 20 cm x depth 20 cm (group).  Cabinet size: 40 x 40 x 40 cm

Former Selves (2026). Kozo bookbinding repair tissue. Height 12 cm x width 9 cm x depth 6 cm each

Stone Head (profile). Japanese tissue on cartridge paper, charcoal and graphite. Width 28 cm x height 33 cm.

Stone Head (garden rock), Charcoal frottage on Japanese paper.

Stone Head (2025). Height 85 cm x width 78 cm. Charcoal frottage drawing from Alabaster stone carving

Stone Head (2025). Height 85 cm x width 78 cm. Charcoal frottage drawing from Alabaster stone carving

Stone Head (2025). Height 85 cm x width 78 cm. Charcoal frottage drawing from Alabaster stone carving

Stone Head (2025). Height 85 cm x width 78 cm. Charcoal frottage drawing from Alabaster stone carving

Boundstone. Frottage - rubbings of stones bound with thread (rockprints)

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