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Artist Statement

My work explores the unconscious structures of boundaries that exist within humans and the ways these boundaries can be disturbed through encounters with non-human beings. Through installation, performance, sound, video, and drawing, I seek to unsettle anthropocentric modes of perception and imagine alternative ways of sensing and relating to other forms of existence.

Recurring figures in my recent work are the ocean and the octopus. I understand the ocean as a protocol space of collective becoming: an intersecting field of the unconscious and a living cosmos where different beings connect, transform, and continuously reconfigure one another. Through my study of the octopus’s distributed nervous system, I have developed the concept of the non-human collective body—a model of collective intelligence that challenges human-centered notions of agency, perception, and consciousness. For me, the octopus is not merely an animal or a subject of representation, but a mode of operation, a protocol that expands thought, and a site of experimentation.

The concept of transformation is central to my practice. The imagination of transformation makes possible a world in which all beings exist on equal terms. To imagine crossing the boundaries of form, species, and identity is to engage in a practice of becoming, where the distinction between self and other begins to shift.

Through my encounter with the ink-bearing creature—the octopus—I imagine the emergence of a language for new modes of being. This language can emerge only beyond the ideal of perfection; it is a language made possible through failure, contamination, and hybridity. Recent work explores drawing and collective action as forms of inscription through which non-human intelligence may become perceptible. I am particularly interested in how non-human intelligence might write itself through the human hand, or emerge through the movements of a collective body.