Ongoing investigations into care, memory, and living systems through material and temporal processes.
This journal gathers fragments, early works, and material experiments that inform my artistic practice.
Rather than presenting resolved outcomes, it traces an evolving inquiry into care, temporality, and the unstable relationship between living and non-living matter.
Many of the works here operate as preliminary structures — attempts to organize, preserve, or intervene — that later unfold into more complex, time-based installations.
First Aid Kit (I-III), 2008
This series explores care as a system of collection, classification, and preservation.
Organic materials, medical tools, and found elements are arranged within a controlled structure, suggesting an attempt to stabilize life through ordering.
For each kit, a set of instructions was developed, outlining how the contents should be used in various situations. These guidelines adopt an intentionally absurd logic, proposing methods of care that are at once procedural and ineffective.
This early use of absurdity later unfolds into repeated and often futile acts of care, as well as into a blurring between what is sustained and what only appears to be alive.
The gradual overflow of organic matter in the final piece introduces a tension between control and growth, marking an early investigation into processes that would later evolve into living, time-based works.
Protective Bandage (2008)
In this early work, care emerges as an act of protection that gradually turns into restriction.
A mixture traditionally used in alternative treatments for fractures—soap, plants, and egg white—is applied here not to human bodies, but to trees. This gesture is driven by the assumption that the plant is vulnerable and in need of protection.
The bandage is wrapped around the fruit while it is still attached to the branch, preventing it from falling. Each bandage is designed for a specific tree species and accompanied by a set of instructions describing its application.
What initially appears as an act of care begins to reveal its contradictions. By preventing the fruit from falling, the seeds cannot disperse, interrupting the cycle of reproduction. The attempt to preserve life ultimately interferes with its continuation.
This work reflects on an excessive protective impulse that, rather than sustaining life, risks diminishing it. It suggests that our relationship with nature requires a balance between attention and restraint, and a willingness to accept processes such as breaking, decay, and transformation.
