Ghost Reef (2023)
Medium: Steel, factory-discarded shoelaces, and cotton thread.
A skeletal reef, suspended between fragility and resilience. Ghost Reef unfolds as a lattice of steel, layered with remnants of the discarded—shoelaces, ribbon laces, rusted wire, and forgotten debris. It is an exploration of materiality and transformation, where organic textures dissolve into industrial remnants, blurring the lines between what was once alive and what lingers.
Natural forms emerge through abstraction—echoes of shells, driftwood, and corals intertwining with forgotten waste. The interwoven textures create a shifting presence, at once delicate and raw, fluid yet rigid. The process itself becomes part of the narrative—juxtaposing found objects in a way that speaks to erosion, growth, and the quiet tension between permanence and disappearance.
A reef, or what remains of one. A memory of something lost, or something becoming.