My practice transmutes rupture and absence into landscapes of restoration and remembrance. I weave together materials laden with cultural memory—hand-knotted rope, reclaimed silk, threshing vessels, and rusted domestic objects—into sculptures, installations and rituals honoring the unseen labor that sustains communities in the face of violence, displacement, and erasure. My work whispers a narrative of how far-flung imperialism is spun from the same thread that weaves trauma and disconnection into descendant generations.

In my work, the personal and collective exist in constant dialogue, where individual scars are inflicted by systemic forces, and each act of excavation builds toward the possibility of repair. Time becomes a proxy for care as my hands spend hundreds of hours on each piece performing the same patient labor as my ancestors—farmers, fishermen, weavers and cooks. 

I challenge conventional notions of monumentality by creating works that commemorate what flourishes beyond the margins of official histories—the indispensability of women's labor, the wisdom of ancestral traditions, the resilience of immigrant communities. In centering the materials of daily life—kitchen implements, agricultural tools, personal artifacts—I create tactile archives that memorialize the ingenuity of those deemed expendable by systems of exploitation.

Rejecting fixed modalities enables me to interrogate broader social and cultural questions while holding space for healing and transformation through both my public art and studio practices. In the tension between material and memory, my work creates sanctuaries where diaspora communities can reckon with loss while affirming what remains—the inheritances we choose to carry forward.