i take up residence. this is where the work begins — not with a concept but with presence. i arrive in a space, move through it, listen to it, learn its light and its silences. the process is durational and unhurried. parameters come later, if at all.
my installations are practice-based in the most literal sense — process is the form. assembling and disassembling, shifting, accumulating and rearranging. materials are sourced on site or brought from the accumulated residue of daily life — modest, familiar, often overlooked. what is discarded, forgotten or taken for granted becomes the vocabulary.
light arrives. space holds. time accumulates. these are the constant materials — found, responsive, site-specific. a room shifts through a morning. shadow gathers in corners. what the space has held leaves a trace. the installation lives in this duration — unresolved, ongoing, alive to change.
through this process of slow looking and careful arrangement, subtle dynamics emerge. tensions are built and held. the in-between is where the work lives: between presence and absence, between the seen and the unseen, between what a space was and what it might become. these are quiet activations — inconspicuous shifts that ask for a different quality of attention.
the studio is always present in the installation as a method made visible — the thinking, the accumulation, the ongoing negotiation between material and meaning. practice-based form means the marks of process remain. everything is as finished as it needs to be. everything is in relation.
over time, as spatial tensions and quiet contradictions accumulate, something shifts in the viewer. awareness intensifies. the ambient becomes audible. what was invisible becomes felt. this is the work’s invitation — to sense, to slow down, to notice what was already there.
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