Silk–Mulberry
Mulberry trees evolved iminosugars and phenolics to repel herbivores; silkworms evolved enzymes to bypass them. In nature these materials never meet structurally - fibroin is synthesised in isolated silk glands; mulberry chemistry stays in the gut. Their co-evolution is a long antagonism without fusion.
Here, fibroin I extracted from discarded silk garments is brushed onto mulberry kozo. Chemistry that evolved as defence becomes structural cross-linking.
2025-2026
The separations of the seas
In Babylonian mythology, the world began with a division - the primordial sea splitting into fresh water and salt water.
This sculpture continues that boundary. An egg membrane, filled with fresh water, placed in the ocean. The semi-permeable skin passes water molecules but holds salt ions back - a threshold between two worlds.
The shell was dissolved away, and its calcium returned to the water held inside - echoing the calcium waves that mark the very first moment of animal life, the same ion that later drives the rhythmic contractions of a beating heart.
Built from piezoelectric material, every shift in shape emits a signal. Some animals can sense it.
egg, water, ocean
2024
For The Ones Who Tried to Trick Charon ;
Living Water !!
oil based ink on cotton, gilded one penny coins, water, cement and marble dust basin.
Copper etching, aquatint
2026
Measure of Man ( Suited)
Horse Hair Canvas, Lapis Lazuli
The painting's width is tailored to the measure of the painting owner’s cubit;
the length is that cubit, in ratio to the fine-structure constant: a dimensionless number that links matter across scales, from atoms to the cosmos.
Horse hair canvas is a material traditionally used in fine tailoring.
Rules:
• Every time the painting is re-sold, the painting dimension will be re-adjusted to the new owner’s cubit.
• Past Provenance will stay visible.
2025- work in progress
I collected resin from Constable’s pine tree and distilled it into turpentine. The turpentine is intended for conservation laboratories to restore Constable’s paintings.
Turpentine is a solvent; highly volatile and can easily dissolve an image - but it can also reunite and stabilize fragmented layers of paint.
a transparent, conceptual painting nested within Constable’s own.
2024-2025
Volatile organic Compounds II
A by-product of the distillation is rosin- a material traditionally used in aquatint copper etching.
A unified layer of oil-based ink was applied to the copper plate; the image was painted with Constable’s tree turpentine, dissolving the ink which created the white areas.
2024