My work examines transformation through repetition, fragility, and accumulation. Using shell-like forms in metal, graphite, and paper, I explore identity as something continually shed, rebuilt, and carried forward. The shell becomes both protection and evidence — a structure that preserves traces of what once existed while making space for growth and change.

This body of work emerged from an inquiry into becoming: how identity is shaped through cycles of rupture, adaptation, tenderness, and survival. I am interested in the tension between vulnerability and resilience, and in the quiet transformations that occur over time rather than through singular dramatic moments. Through repeated forms, I create surfaces and structures that feel simultaneously delicate and enduring, suggesting the way experiences accumulate within the body and psyche.

Repetition functions as both process and metaphor in my practice. The labor of constructing each form becomes meditative, marking time through touch, rhythm, and sustained attention. Individual shell elements gather into larger installations that evoke growth, memory, and interconnection. These accumulations mirror the way identity itself is formed: through layered moments, revisions, losses, and acts of renewal.

Materiality is central to this exploration. Metal offers permanence and strength, while paper and graphite hold softness, impermanence, and intimacy. By combining these materials, I investigate how transformation is rarely clean or complete; it often exists in unstable spaces between breaking and rebuilding, protection and exposure, grief and hope.

For me, transformation is not about becoming someone entirely new. It is about preserving the ability to recognize oneself through change: tenderness, flaws, endurance, empathy, and hope remaining visible despite rupture. Each shell form becomes a small act of survival and connection, linking one moment of becoming to the next.