SPOLIA

This series explores memory and the complex interplay between past and present. Drawing inspiration from the architectural term 'spolia' - referring to repurposed objects in new constructions - this body of work delves into themes of meaning and memory.

'Spolia’ also reflects on the universal human experience of connection and disconnection - from one's past, present, or self. Layers and fragments of time, memory, and environment intertwine.

chapter III

Here, Spolia operates through intersecting and twisting lines that accumulate and cross one another. These works are about memory. They stand as witnesses and guides. The revealed texture and unfinished edges mark the points where forces press against limits, exposing the boundary between intentional structure and what cannot be controlled.

chapter II

The in-between is reduced to its essential form: two lines in relation. They mark the position of a self shaped by opposing forces—at once belonging, and at the same time holding distance, both “a part of” and “apart from.”

chapter I

Spolia begins as a meditation on displacement—what it feels like to be in-between and what maybe has been. I draw from the reuse of historical objects and symbols, taken from one context and given another, reshaped by an intention never recognized.