What Remains (2025)

I like the unpredictable, serendipitous, and beautifully imperfect process of printmaking. Each work begins as an act of discovery, a quiet conversation between material, time and touch. I use various printmaking techniques, allowing chance and imperfection to guide the outcome.

My creative process feels like conversing with life itself, just as no one can live without breathing, I cannot live without creating, without feeling and without bringing my own personal experiences into form.

In every fragment, something endures, a trace, a memory, a breath of what once was.

What Remains gathers the quiet after the act of making: the folds, stains, threads, and imprints that time leaves behind. Each piece becomes a meditation on presence and absence, on transformation and the fragile beauty of decay.

Here, remnants become stories. What is left is not what is lost, it is what continues to hold.

This body of works rest in the still space in between ritual and remembrance. Each gesture, steeping arranging, staining sticking, becomes and act of noticing, a meditation on the beauty of impermanence. Influenced by Eastern philosophies, the work draws from wabi-sabi, embracing fragility, incompleteness, and the poetry of wear. In the cracked eggshells and faded stains, there is grace in what’s broken, humility in what endures.

The compositions echo ikebana, the Japanese art of arrangement that seeks balance and breath rather than perfection. Each botanical imprint becomes an offering, a moment of life suspended between presence and decay. The use of tea, drawn from tea ceremonies, transforms daily ritual into reverence. Each cup, each stain, is a quiet act of gratitude, a trace of connection between body, memory and earth.

Through haiku, the works speak in the language of pause and reduction, each poem distills a moment to its essence, much like the tannin and light that settles into paper. Together, image and word form a contemplative archive, a dialogue between the fleeting and the eternal.

This series of works consists of pieces that explore the interconnectedness between human beings and the natural world, specifically focusing on the cycles of life. The theme of cycles runs through all my work like a thread. The life cycles include birth, growth, decay, and rebirth. I aim to show how these stages mirror the Earth's natural cycles. Through symbolism, I strive to represent different life stages depending on my own current experiences, I can see how these mirror in my own life. In the warmth of tea, the fragility of the eggshell, and the stillness of print, I seek harmony in transience, finding beauty not in what lasts, but in what quietly remains.