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WHEN DUST SETTLES SERIES
Source: YEAR: 2026 MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUE: Glass vessels, preserved mice, sediment, clay panels, graphite

In this series, bodies appear held, displaced, and gradually undone.

Small animals, found and carefully preserved, are placed within glass vessels and partially embedded in sediment. What begins as an act of holding becomes a slow process of change: fluids and color evaporate, surfaces dry and crumble, matter settles. The works shift between containment and dispersal; between what is kept intact and what begins to fragment. 

Some forms function as vessels, carrying and enclosing the body. Others accumulate as deposits, where multiple states coexist: intact, submerged, broken. In the final stage, what remains is no longer a body, but a residue, a trace of material that continues to shift and settle.

Alongside these sculptural works, a series of drawings emerges. Here, the body is as a faint imprint. Rendered in powdered graphite on clay-coated panels, the animals appear as if dissolving into their surface, not depicted, but slowly absorbed.

Rather than fixing a moment, the works operate as a form of archiving in flux. They register processes of preservation and decay, of holding and letting go. What is shown is not a stable form, but a field of transitions, where body and landscape begin to overlap, and where each leaves a trace within the other.

This series follow an ongoing interest in the body as a threshold, a surface where inside and outside, preservation and transformation, continuously meet.

A memory of a place and a body.