Resilience
Resilience is a series of sculptural works that examine the body’s capacity to endure damage and reform itself. The forms evoke skin—stretched, punctured, and stitched—suggesting surfaces that have been torn and carefully brought back together. Throughout the series, seams, sutures, and bindings remain deliberately visible. These elements are not attempts to conceal damage but acts of reconstruction. The process of stitching and joining becomes both literal and symbolic: a way of acknowledging rupture while insisting on continuation. The works explore the tension between fragility and strength. In this way, the series proposes a different understanding of wholeness. Rather than erasing damage, healing incorporates it. The repaired surface carries its history forward, forming a new structure that is altered, but intact and maybe more beautiful than in its origin.
Thick Skin
62” x 33” x 6” Encaustic Monotype, wire, burlap, string, metal mesh, leather
Still Strong
36” x 20” x 4” Encaustic Monotype, wire, burlap, leather
Piece By Piece
48” x 20” x 4” Encaustic Monotype, wire, felt, tulle, hemp, cord
Let It Out
38” x 30” x 5” Encaustic Monotype, wire, felt, tulle, burlap, cord
Reflection
35” x 26” x 5” Encaustic monotype, wire, mirror, leather and string
Made Whole
37” x 20” x 4” Encaustic Monotype, wire, burlap, string, metal mesh
All We Carry
45” x 46” x 4” Encaustic Monotype, wire, felt, burlap, tulle, cord
After The Tear
22" x 14” x 6” Encaustic monotype, wire, string
Repair
37” x 33” x 4” Encaustic Monotype, wire, mirror, burlap, string
Sheild
29” x 24” x 4” Encaustic Monotype, wire, felt, tulle, leather