MICROSCAPES
Bandage, resin, metallic print
Casa Lu Parque, Mexico, 2025
During my residency at Casa Lu, I created a series called Microscapes, which considers the body as a landscape, both internally and externally, while rejecting the outdated notion of the “bodyscape” as an idealised form. Our bodies are constantly shifting, reshaped by forces both within and beyond our control. I am interested in how external events, life’s unpredictability, our embodied experience of gender and personal tragedy imprint themselves on us, influencing who we are and how we move through the world.
I have photographed natural phenomena in bodies of water. From these images, I construct works that carry an inherent ambiguity and mystery in their origin, materiality, and surface. The process of image transfer, a highly physical technique, makes me feel like an archaeologist revealing the image, transporting me back to the original experience of photographing these environments. At times, the material rejects the image, mirroring the ways we sometimes reject our own bodies. While these pieces emerge from my own subjectivity and personal phenomenology, they ultimately invite viewers to encounter their own experiences within them.
