My art practice explores social problems such as gender inequality, abuse, war trauma, and homelessness. The social problems and versatility of the human personality are explored through the lens of empowered women in a global context. My goal is to capture today's reality with its progression and limitations through the human image and bring awareness of the unseen, to a wider audience.
I approach this through figurative elements in my sculpture, painting, drawing, and photography. They assembled with contrasting feelings from tenderness to aggression, from sadness to hope, from vulnerability to ruthlessness, and from peace to restlessness.
I work with models from life as well as I use photography and editing as a precursor to my painting practice.
I'm particularly interested in the use of texture and depth that the mixing of pigment, oil, and cold wax can provide. It helps to reveal the imperfections of human beings and beauty at the same time. I am especially attracted by the drama which the red colour can provide.
One of the materials I am drawn to is recycled cardboard which I use as a media to create sculptures, and canvases for my mixed-media painting. Surfaces are made with many pieces of cardboard of varied sizes stuck together in layers.
The use of cardboard helps me to consider humanity’s capacity for a second chance or a new life. Such as immigrants’ displacement and reassembling. Through the cardboard, I investigate the issue of homelessness and the need for shelters and temporary homes.
I explore the state of mind when one is always primed to leave their current situation because of abuse or war. The mark-making of paint makes me think about stains and the traces we leave as evidence of our lives. It speaks to me as well about the strains and traumas that leave marks on our souls. Drips and drops, footsteps and fingerprints, layers of dust, and rubbing over surfaces.