My work explores the ambivalent relationship humans maintain with nature, between fascination, fear, and the desire for control. Across different cultures and mythologies, we project moral and symbolic meanings onto the natural world: snakes, spiders, and flames become, in turn, omens, protections, or threats. These symbols often reveal more about our own psyche than about nature itself.
I work primarily with drawing and Japanese washi paper, a fragile translucent material that allows light to pass through it. My works are built in layers: an initial cut forms a structural base, onto which graphite-drawn shapes are cut and superimposed. The works play with transparency, shadow, and layering, revealing shifting images depending on light and perspective.
My compositions borrow from the visual language of decorative patterns (wallpapers, tapestries, and textiles) as a reflection of the human impulse to structure and domesticate the living world. Within them, I repeat symbols drawn from nature: spiderwebs, snakes, butterflies, waves, flowers, and flames. Yet the order never fully holds. The patterns slip, unravel, and intertwine, as if something untamed were constantly resisting from within the structure.
Through these forms, I also incorporate elements associated with human constructions (chains, barbed wire, ropes) evoking gestures of restriction, domination, and separation: ways in which we attempt, however imperfectly, to constrain nature and exert power over it, as though we were not part of it ourselves.
Balancing visual softness with underlying tension, my works invite viewers to reflect on their own perception of nature and the mechanisms of control they project onto it. They suggest that humans are never separate from the natural world, but inevitably entangled within its networks, even when our symbolic structures attempt to deny that connection.