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.

Into the Woods and Back Again

18 x 24 x 1.5 Encausitc and pigment on wood panel

Sisters

24 x 18 x 1.5 Encaustic, oil and pigment on cradled wood panel

Dreams Larger Than Mountains

30 x 40 x 1.5 Encaustic, oil and pigment on wood panel

The Quiet of a Sunset

30 x 40 x 1.5 Encaustic, oil and pigment on cradled wood panel

In A Heartbeat

18 x 24 x 1.5 Encaustic, oil and pigment on wood panel

Cold Day Warm Drink

18 x 24 Encaustic, oil and pigment on cradled wood panel