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My work begins with listening and paying attention, to voices, environments, and to processes that unfold slowly or are often avoided: grief, decay, collapse. I work across sound, writing and installation, allowing each medium to bleed into the others. Often, I recycle materials and language from older works into new ones again, working with similar ideas in different iterations. Across a decade of work, I have been returning to the same questions from different positions: how is loss held, how does it move, what does it destabilise, what does it reveal, what does it make possible, what does it resist, and what happens when structures made to contain it begin to break down?
In recent years, I’ve been exploring ‘de-composition’ understood both as material decay and as a loosening of fixed forms of knowledge and subjectivity. This idea emerged through personal loss and has expanded toward and interwoven with ecological and collective questions: what becomes of the ‘Self’ when we attend closely to processes that exceed it? How could grief destabilise notions of individuality? What kinds of knowledge emerge through rot, disintegration and unknowing?
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