Artist statement

I work with materials that remember — dust, soil, paper, and pigment — to explore how time, place, and belonging are inscribed in matter. My practice moves between printmaking, installation, and performance, tracing the fragile borders between the human body and the more-than-human world.

I’m interested in what philosopher Jane Bennett calls “vibrant matter”: the vitality that exists in all substances, from volcanic dust to handmade paper. Each work begins with a dialogue between material and environment, allowing natural processes — humidity, oxidation, and sedimentation — to shape the outcome. Following Luce Irigaray’s idea that breath connects all beings, and Roland Barthes’ ideas on the symbology of signs connecting us to our inner world, to I often think of making as a reciprocal act of respiration between myself and the landscape.

Born into an ancient family of papermakers from Amalfi, paper has shaped a lot of my childhood and becomes a membrane through which memory and atmosphere pass. Its surface records contact and time, echoing Amelia Jones’s notion of the trace as an embodied archive. I see each print I make as a living document of transformation — a negotiation between control and surrender.