The material-driven process in these paintings draw from the artist’s memories of the natural world’s force and fragility: Landslides, rainstorms, waterfalls.

They begin with a question of home—of creating a place for the spirit to dwell. Each canvas holds a textured topography of cement, shaped to guide the downward flow of ink and pigment. The resulting traces capture the material’s motion and emotion, forming a record of elemental interaction.

The cement evokes weathered stone and shifting bedrock, while flowing pigments recall rainstorms, landslides, and waves crashing along shorelines. These works channel the sensory memory of water rushing down rock faces and the earth reshaping itself under pressure.

From the artist: “As I shaped the cement, I imagined my nomadic ancestors crossing mountains and deserts. As I guided the water’s flow, I connected with my seafaring lineage. These works honor both the ancestral journeys I carry and the primal forces—earth and water—that form not only the land, but our very bodies. In making them, I locate myself as an extension of the Earth—our original, and enduring, home.”