Unmade
Handmade collage on paper
2025, 11x15 inch
This work navigates the fragile intersection of body, machine, and memory. The fragmented figure part bone, part metal, part cosmic landscape stands as both witness and survivor. The anatomical heart is neither erased nor whole, and the bird perched on skeletal fingers becomes a quiet companion, holding space for what remains.
It reflects on resilience after disassembly: a body that is no longer what it was, but still insists on existing.
This work reflects on exile, displacement, and the impossibility of neutrality in spaces marked by forced migration. The fragmented landscape—torn skies, fractured ice, and animals frozen mid-movement—suggests a suspension between belonging and erasure. Even clouds, once symbols of openness and freedom, appear to take sides, leaving no refuge untouched by conflict or memory.
The piece asks: Which sky belongs to us, and which has already expelled us? Through the act of collage, layers of rupture and silence are reassembled into a fragile presence. What is banished from one space insists on existing in another, carrying both the trace of loss and the possibility of endurance.
This collage emerges from a fractured landscape where humanity, technology, and history collide. Constructed from mechanical fragments, documentary imagery, mathematical formulas, and printed text, the figure stands as both a survivor and a witness suspended in a state of rethinking.
Its metallic limbs evoke the cold precision of engineered systems, while the torso, built from images of mass displacement and ruins carries the weight of collective memory and historical violence. The raised arm holding a small figure suggests an ambiguous gesture: both a quiet act of resistance and a signal of exhaustion.
Equations running along the legs mirror the human desire to rationalize forces that remain beyond control: war, ecological collapse, exile, and the rewriting of shared truths. By piecing these elements together, the work creates a body that is not whole, but insistently present a fragile structure that questions power, authorship, and survival.
Rethinking the End reflects the uneasy threshold between past and future, between what has been erased and what refuses to disappear. It is an image of endurance: fragmented yet still standing.
Untitled,
Handmade collage on paper
11 × 15 in, 2025
This collage explores identity and the everyday imprints of urban life. The fingerprint face suggests both individuality and surveillance, while the hanging clothes and balloons evoke fragile traces of existence. The figure stands at the intersection of celebration and erasure, embodying the layered struggles of migrant life.
Self Completed
Handmade collage on paper
8 × 11 in, 2025
This work explores the quiet tension between the individual body and the collective. The fragmented figure made of crowds, clock, bone, and heart reflects a being shaped by forces larger than itself. Time, pressure, and movement accumulate inside the silhouette, blurring where the self begins and ends. What appears whole is built from countless fractures, held together by sheer will.
Handmade collage 11-15 inch 2025
State of Home
This collage portrays the grotesque theater of power and violence. The crowned, masked figure extends a hand holding fragments of red, evoking both offering and threat. Surrounded by animals, ruins, and faceless crowds, the image becomes an allegory of domination and survival. It questions who holds the right to speak, to eat, to live.
Untitled,
Handmade collage on paper
11 × 15 in, 2025
This collage embodies the gaze of surveillance and the haunting presence of ruins. The fragmented body, composed of rubble and fractured architecture, holds onto fragile antlers— a symbol of both memory and survival. It reflects the trauma of war, displacement, and the persistence of seeing amidst devastation.
This collage confronts the weight of history and authority. The portrait, framed in gold yet faceless, embodies silence imposed by power. The blood-red mouth and closed book suggest forbidden speech, while the carved pedestal recalls monuments of control. It is a study of how memory is framed, silenced, and resisted.
The displaced fish, severed from its water, becomes a symbol of dislocation and survival in hostile terrain, while the wreckage beneath it testifies to human exploitation and neglect. Through rupture and layering, the work points to the commodification of nature: the earth reduced to a consumable resource, stripped of its intrinsic value.
This piece is both an environmental elegy and an ethical mirror. It suggests that the erosion of the earth cannot be separated from the erosion of our inner life—an urgent reminder of shared responsibility and the inseparability of planetary and human survival.
