Human experience is both the origin and the residue of artistic production. Each encounter, however brief, reshapes the frameworks through which we perceive and construct the world. In this sense, nostalgia is not simply a feeling of loss but a condition of perception. As time and memory converge, material experience shapes meaning.

My practice engages this intersection through mixed media assemblage, incorporating photography and found materials. Drawing from Roland Barthes’s conception of the punctum and Susan Sontag’s understanding of the photograph as both presence and absence, I explore how images operate as mnemonic devices, objects that move between documentation and invention. Through intuitive, process-based methods, I aim to externalize the instability of memory, translating personal archives into a shared visual language.

Influenced by Nicolas Bourriaud’s theory of relational aesthetics, I approach the artwork as an open system rather than a fixed statement. Meaning emerges through the viewer’s engagement, shaped by their own perception and experience. Within this exchange, nostalgia becomes an active method, a way for both artist and audience to navigate the shifting boundaries between past and present, as individual experience folds into the collective, and the material into the immaterial.

Artist Statement, 2026