In my practice, I aim to deconstruct the visual language of ableism and open a collective and empathic space for bodily vulnerability. By reflecting on my own hidden disability, I extend the individuality of the body outward, engaging with it as both a personal and collective entity. My work explores how we perceive chronic pain socially and how this perception shapes our relationship with nature.

In Sympoiesis, a term borrowed from Donna Haraway meaning “making-with” or “creating together,” I emphasize the emotional interdependence between the human body and the natural world, reflecting on how this shared act of creation sustains life. I create encaustic sculptures from fractured wood coated with beeswax and natural pigments to reflect on environmental destruction. Through the ambiguity between vegetation and animality, I seek to dissolve the boundary between my own chronic pain and nature’s body to evoke a shared sense of sympathy. Using materials that have already lived such as wood, wool, and beeswax, I weave layers of time, fragility, and bodily regeneration into my practice.