In light of Memory
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 the brilliance of the day sky conceals the vastness of the night, which itself veils an even deeper, more elusive reality, this work gestures toward realms beyond immediate perception.
Stitched with silk thread in a diamond pattern that echoes spacetime, it weaves a tactile dialogue between art, nature, science, and the infinite. The wild silk cocoons symbols of metamorphosis, embodying transformation through fractal-like forms that reflect a cosmos in perpetual emergence. Their lustrous, lacelike surfaces hold a tension between fragility and resilience, shimmering like liquid metal in homage to the ever-evolving universe.
Rooted in the sacred tradition of altar cloths, crafted across ages and cultures with care and reverence, this work brings the same devotional sensibility to a contemporary exploration of the sublime.
'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
The body of work includes large textile works and photograms each contributing a shared visual and conceptual dialogue. Together, they invite reflection on our place within a vast and ever-evolving universe.
The textile works, formed from artist dyed wild silk cocoons, suggest veils that both reveal and conceal, echoing the layered realities of quantum science, and the screening of the night sky as day is revealed. Drawing on Eastern philosophies and the symbolic cloths of religious traditions, the textiles mark thresholds between the material and spiritual, the known and the unseen.
Extending these ideas, the photograms translate the textiles 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.
Acting as masks during exposure, the textiles leave ghostly impressions that explore presence and absence, memory and impermanence, the illusion of solidity, and the ephemeral nature of energy patterns. As with the stars veiled by daylight, these images obscure and reveal, evoking a world both hidden and illuminated, where past and present seem to coexist.
By weaving together the tactility of the textiles with the transcient feel of the photograms 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 of part of my 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, thread, Artist dyed cocoons on matte bromide paper 113x70cm
Chrystalline Memories
'Chrystalline Memories I' 2025 shadow print on matte bromide paper, artist dyed wild silk cocoons and thread 25x20cm
'Chrystalline Memories II' 2025 shadow print on matte bromide paper, artist dyed wild silk cocoons and thread 25x20cm
'Chrystalline Memories III' 2025 shadow print on matte bromide paper, artist dyed wild silk cocoons and thread 25x20cm
Future Memory
'Future Memory' 2025
Thread on double and single shadow print on matte bromide paper 32x47cm
Mosaic of Memory
Comprising forty individual pieces, this double shadow print emerges from my own experience of remembering and misremembering, where clarity drifts in and out of reach. Its structure echoes the James Webb Space Telescope’s way of mapping the Universe, assembling countless exposures into a single, expansive image. Each “tile” in this mosaic marks time spent beneath the night sky, reflecting on the vastness above and the quiet, unfathomable spaces within.
The work is, itself, a memory of ‘Alter Cloth (Emerging Universe)’ a shadow of a shadow is layered and incomplete, much like the way recollection holds onto fragments while letting others dissolve. In this way, the image becomes both an archive and an absence, a map not only of the cosmos but of the shifting terrain of human memory.
'Mosaic of Memory' (detail 1) 2025 double shadow print, thread and artist dyed wild silk cocoons on matte bromide paper 1090x2050cm
'Mosaic of Memory' (detail 2) 2025 double shadow print, thread and artist dyed wild silk cocoons on matte bromide paper 1090x2050cm