2026 collection
A BODY IS NOT SEPERATE FROM THE ENVIRONMENTS THAT SHAPE IT.
IT ABSORBS THEM, REMEMBERES THEM, BECOMES THEM.
Body:Habitat marks a monent of internal shift.
Where landscape and identity collapse into one another, and the self begins to take on the textures of the places that changed it.
Body:Habitat is a collection born from a period of transformation. An experience of movement, exposure, and emotional reorientation that began during time spent in Costa Rica (January 2026). What initially presented itself as a physical journey gradually revealed itself as something more internal: a subtle but undeniable shift in the relationship between the body and its surroundings.
In this work, the body is no longer treated as a fixed or isolated form. Instead, it becomes permeable; capable of absorbing, reflecting, and ultimately becoming the environments it inhabits. Ocean, shell, flora, heat, and atmosphere begin to imprint themselves onto the figure, dissolving the boundary between external landscape and internal identity.
The paintings within Body Habitat explore this moment of transition. Figures appear in states of surrender, fragmentation, or quiet transformation, as if caught in the act of becoming something else. Organic materials: shells, botanical forms, and oceanic textures - do not simply surround the body, but integrate with it, suggesting a merging rather than a separation.
There is a tension throughout the work between control and release. The compositions often reference traditional portraiture and devotional imagery, grounding the viewer in familiarity, while simultaneously introducing elements that disrupt the expected structure of the human form. This juxtaposition reflects the experience of change itself: both intimate and disorienting, both grounding and destabilizing.
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At its core, Body Habitat is not about place, but about what place does to a person. It considers how environments linger within us, how they alter perception, memory, and self-concept long after we have physically left them.
This collection marks the beginning of that transformation. Not a conclusion, but an entry point into a body that is still in the process of becoming.