I create soft sculptures mainly with wool and needle felting. I am interested in how a form can change without losing what it is.
Wool can be pressed, folded, stretched, compressed, and reshaped, but it remains the same material.
This ability to change while staying itself is central to my work.
My sculptures are often organic, curved, asymmetrical, and deliberately unbalanced.
I avoid perfect balance because I am interested in the slight discomfort that comes from instability.
A form may lean, swell, fold, or push out from an unexpected place. Although wool is usually connected with softness, warmth, and comfort, I use it to create tension, sharpness, and sometimes an uneasy presence.
I am drawn to this contrast between what a material seems to promise and what it can actually become.
These ideas are also connected to my own experience of identity and belonging. I remain the same person when I move between places or speak different languages, but I may be understood differently depending on the context.
Living abroad made me more aware of the gap between who I know myself to be and how I may be read by others.
I see a similar condition in my sculptures. The work remains the same object, but each viewer may understand its form differently.
One person may see a body, another a landscape, a living thing, or something that is difficult to name.
Through changing forms, imbalance, and the sharpness hidden within softness, I explore the space between what something is and
how it is seen.
My work asks how much a form can change while still remaining itself, and how much our way of seeing shapes the identity we give to it.
