This exploration began with an exhibition in 2024 at SLOTprojects, where the use of found materials began— mainly manufacturing byproducts and matter drawn from the natural environment. The subject of investigation became the tension between impermanence and anchorage, where materials, conditioned for their original intent, retain attributes that continue to shape their behaviour in the process of adapting to their new configuration.

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What draws me to them is what they already carry and their physical presence: histories of function, labour, consumption, exchange; weight, texture, a resistance that, worked against, opens onto the possibility of reorientation.

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Cutting, shaping, assembling, joining: each act pulls the material away from its original intent. Attentive to the material's physical attributes and its environment, I engage process-driven method of arrangement: weight negotiated against balance, resistance worked into adaptation, fragments arriving at some provisional attachment. Surfaces meet and hold through adsorption, one material taking on the trace of another; new relationships emerge through displacement and reattachment. Every element carries something of its former state into this unfamiliar new arrangement.