Continuum
Born from my lifelong fascination with science, Eastern philosophies, and the natural world, this body of work has grown from countless nights spent beneath the vast sky at my Mt. Bruno studio, west of the Warby Ranges.
As a child, I would search for the first star at sunset, knowing the sky would soon be filled with sparkling diamonds. That early awe only deepened when I learned these “diamonds” were suns like our own, embedded in vast galaxies in an immense universe. Now, in the stillness of Mt. Bruno’s nights, the quiet reaches of the cosmos meet the paradoxes of quantum physics, interwoven with the philosophy of Eastern thought and ancient spirituality.
Through this convergence, my work seeks to bridge the space between science, spirituality, and the intimate experience of being human.
Alter Cloth ~ Emerging Universe
Just as daylight conceals the vastness of the night sky, and the night veils deeper unseen realities, this work gestures toward realms beyond perception. Stitched in a diamond pattern echoing spacetime, it creates a tactile dialogue between art, nature, science, and the infinite.
Formed from artist-dyed wild silk cocoons, symbols of metamorphosis and continual emergence, the work suggests a veil that both reveals and conceals. Their lustrous, lacelike surfaces hold a tension between fragility and resilience, shimmering like liquid metal in homage to an evolving cosmos. Drawing on Eastern philosophies and the sacred tradition of altar cloths, it marks thresholds between the material and spiritual, the known and the unseen.
Used as a mask during exposure, this source textile leaves ghostly impressions exploring presence and absence, memory and impermanence, and the illusion of solidity. Like stars obscured by daylight, these images conceal and reveal, evoking layered realities where past and present coexist.
'Alter cloth (Emerging Universe)' (detail 1) 2025 Artist dyed wild silk cocoons and silk thread 890x1910cm
'Alter cloth (Emerging Universe)' (detail 2) 2025 Artist dyed wild silk cocoons and silk thread 890x1910cm
Photograms translate the textile into positive and negative shadow prints by the recording of the photons within bromide paper. Created by exposing the lace-like silk works directly onto the paper, they reimagine a historical photographic process in a contemporary way.
The body of work creates an immersive space in which illusion, memory, and transformation meet. It is a contemplative terrain where art, science, and spirituality align, offering a pause to consider the mysteries that shape our reality.
Mantilla of Memory
Formed from twelve parts, ‘Mantilla of Memory’ traces a year spent observing the night sky contemplating the vastness above and the mystery within. As when the mantilla of night falls at dusk, revealing a sky full of ancient stars, it invites reflection on the structure of reality, spirituality and remembrance. Referencing religious ceremonial cloths, it is formed by a double shadow print using the source artwork ‘Alter Cloth (Emerging Universe)’, made from wild silk cocoons.
It suggests a blurring of memory, partial and layered, the whole being revealed through accumulation, and then only through the veil of recollection. Cocoons floated over the print are luminous interruptions, suggesting evolving spaces where past and present coexist. Stitched thread traces pathways through time, echoing the eternal like starlight from distant galaxies.
‘Mantilla of Memory’ 2025
Double shadow print on matte bromide pape, thread, artist dyed cocoons on rag mat 113x70cm
Chrystalline Memories
'Chrystalline Memories I' 2025 shadow print on matte bromide paper, artist dyed wild silk cocoons and thread on rag mat 25x20cm
'Chrystalline Memories II' 2025 shadow print on matte bromide paper, artist dyed wild silk cocoons and thread on rag mat 25x20cm
'Chrystalline Memories III' 2025 shadow print on matte bromide paper, artist dyed wild silk cocoons and thread on rag mat 25x20cm
Liminal
'Liminal' 2025
Single and double shadow print on matte bromide paper, thread on rag mat 32x47cm