nails and staples not only hold these materials together. they also carry traces of an individual’s effort to find a place, to anchor and to belong within a system. this intervention is not an artificial act of assembly but rather a mark left upon the reality of the individual.
this work emphasizes the balance between the soft and the hard, the natural and the artificial, the organic and the industrial. it speaks of a ‘home’ that is not easy to maintain, yet one that cannot be given up.
