In Gradual Findings, the body becomes a site of tension—caught between the rudimentary structures of classical figuration and the dissolving forms of contemporary abstraction. The work draws from the integration of identity and gender as lived, embodied experiences. Through the drawings and prints, I start by, relying purely on line as an open construct with little attention to form until the body begins to emerge. Shapes and gestures sometimes align, while others find themselves through the process. The imagery, suspended in a state of becoming, rejects the static ideal of the body, offering instead biomorphic forms that evoke openness, fragility, and transformation.
Each piece navigates the blurred boundaries between trauma and transcendence, form and formlessness, questioning how bodies are seen and unseen—fragmented by societal expectations yet stitched together through personal histories. The work is a reclamation of presence, a deliberate distortion of the gaze, where surfaces ripple with the weight of experience and abstraction gestures toward unseen embodiment.
In this unfolding space, the body—often depicted with classically feminine characteristics, constrained by narratives of perfection and submission—emerges anew: imperfect, shifting, sensuous. These gradual findings articulate a process of rediscovery, where the body and its histories become sites of resistance, not only to patriarchal views but to the rigidity of form itself. Here, gestures dissolve and trace the fluidity of body and self.
By embracing fragmentation and ambiguity, Gradual Findings echoes the instability of the body, inviting the viewer into a conversation about the limitations of representation and the expansive possibilities of becoming.
