✳ 𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣?

I’ve always loved creating new textures, but I also find great joy in discovering new possibilities within existing ones. Hand-squeezed textures were something I explored repeatedly when I first started working with metal mesh. Since my hands are the tools I use most often, squeezing is one of the most intuitive and expressive ways for me to shape texture. And how that fascinates me is how a normal texture can be reused and reinterpreted again to generate something entirely new.

✳ 𝘿𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙛𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙥𝙞𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙨. 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙤𝙛?

One of my favorite textures comes from a piece where the surface is covered with sharp spikes of varying sizes. The inspiration behind these pointed forms came from my own imagined version of myself—how I fantasize or wish parts of my personality could be. Interestingly, I started noticing similar textures in the natural world too, like the spines of cacti or thorny branches. That’s when I realized how important it is for my work to closely observe the shapes and textures of everyday things around me. Building up that visual and texture archive helps me to visualize some abstract ideas with textures I’ve already seen or felt before.