A trans-disciplinary conceptual artist, I aim to deconstruct and transform canonised familiar myths from varied beliefs and traditions in order to undermine the structured definitions and portrayal of the other. Obsessive crochet knitter, I try to hold and tie opposite ends together, explore and cherish the intrinsic potential of the extra-ordinary. I often use archival materials and documents as points of departure, while the act of knitting resembles writing: long, rapid, carefully calculated and monotonous movements, a collection of syllables that create a narrative, the object. The texts and contexts become textures that suggest an alternative examination, reflection and interpretation to dogmatic translations. My collaborative projects fuse memory, trauma and the body, with transgenerational multilayered relations where soft materials dissolve hard subject matters. 

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