No.1/1424 Daily Practice, studio residue, cardboard upcycled from mail/packages from artist daily consumption.
Daily practice, 16/1424 studio residue, tape, charcoal, cardboard upcycled from mail/packages from artist daily consumption.
No.2/1424 Daily Practice, studio residue, cardboard upcycled from mail/packages from artist daily consumption.
No.3/1424 Daily Practice, studio residue, tape, cardboard upcycled from mail/packages from artist daily consumption.
No.4/1424 Daily Practice, studio residue, cardboard upcycled from mail/packages from artist daily consumption.
No.5/1424 Daily Practice, studio residue, tape, cardboard upcycled from mail/packages from artist daily consumption.
These work samples are part of my "Daily Practice" project, which began in 2021. Using materials such as tape, cardboard, and paper scraps sourced from my everyday surroundings, I construct compositions that are as much about personal history as they are about abstract concepts of space—imagined, remembered, or experienced.
The collages are built through an improvisational process that merges play with self-imposed constraints, producing fragmented compositions that feel transient and unstable. The layering of ripped/cut cardboard, paper, and tape—creates textural compositions that are both geometric and organic, revealing traces of gestures that invite viewers to pause, reflect, and engage. These pieces resist fixed interpretation, leaving room for wandering, projections and associations. The material choices—mundane and discarded remnants from my everyday life—create a dialogue between the personal and the universal. These pieces, marked by wear and imperfections, carry traces of time, linking each piece to a broader reflection on memory and lived experience. The muted palette and tactile surfaces of cardboard juxtaposed with smooth papers and angular/organic shapes result in compositions that are at once solid and fragile, structured yet unstable.
For example, in "DP_993," a torn section of cardboard interacts with a black, undulating shape, suggesting movement or transition. In "DP_992," layered planes of paper, cardboard, and black/beige tape seem to collapse into each other, creating a form that simultaneously appears solid and disintegrating. Collage "DP_991" combines textured and smooth elements, contrasting rough brown cardboard with delicate paper that evokes a landscape in flux.
Rather than depicting specific places, these works ask the viewer to explore the materiality and the layered history embedded in each composition. By utilizing humble materials, the work serves as a personal archive that weaves together fragments of the past, present, and imagined futures, offering a quiet meditation on space, time, and memory.