Turn away from yourself; be present to the world around you.
This work emerges from an intimate dialogue with the northern coast of Portugal, where I gathered algae as both material and metaphor. By transforming these fragments of the sea into shrouds designed to wrap, drape, and adorn the human figure, I explore the fragile threshold between body and environment. How might the human body might be held by the ocean, not as conqueror or extractor, but as one wrapped in its embrace?
I knew nothing of the sea when I first moved to Portugal. The sea, like the desert I was born in, hides its treasures from our view and demands patience to understand. The sea, like the desert I was born in, refuses to be owned. It gives, then takes, then gives again.
