These work samples are part of my "Daily Practice" project, which began in 2021. Using materials such as tape, cardboard, and paper scraps sourced from my everyday surroundings, I construct compositions that explore both personal history and abstract concepts of space, whether imagined, remembered, or experienced.
The collages are built through an improvisational process that merges play with self-imposed constraints, producing fragmented compositions that feel transient and unstable. The layering of ripped and cut cardboard, paper, and tape creates textural compositions that are both geometric and organic, revealing traces of gestures that invite viewers to pause, reflect, and engage. These pieces resist fixed interpretation, leaving room for wandering, projections, and associations. The material choices, made from mundane and discarded remnants of my everyday life, create a dialogue between autobiographical threads and the universal. Marked by wear and imperfections, these materials carry traces of time, linking each piece to a broader reflection on memory and lived experience. The muted palette and tactile surfaces of cardboard, juxtaposed with smooth papers and angular or organic shapes, result in compositions that are at once solid and fragile, structured yet unstable.
For example, in "DP_993," a torn section of cardboard interacts with a black undulating shape, suggesting movement or transition. In "DP_992," layered planes of paper, cardboard, and black and beige tape seem to collapse into each other, creating a form that simultaneously appears solid and disintegrating. Collage "DP_991" combines textured and smooth elements, contrasting rough brown cardboard with delicate paper that evokes a landscape in flux.
Rather than depicting specific places, these works invite viewers to explore the materiality and layered history embedded in each composition. By utilizing humble materials, the work becomes a personal archive that weaves together fragments of the past, present, and imagined futures, offering a quiet meditation on space, time, and memory.
