Statement of Intent
The body is an archive shaped by impact, repetition, and endurance.
My work explores how physical experience can be translated into visual and material forms rather than represented through the body itself. Each project in The Archive of Accumulated Bodies: Stacked, Stretched, Repeated, Compressed reflects a different way that time and discipline leave traces.
Stacked layers printed images and folded uniforms to visualize accumulated seasons of training.
Stretched captures tension and resistance through staged photography with fellow wrestlers.
Repeated transforms archived match photos into silkscreen prints that mirror athletic drills.
Compressed reinterprets the deformed ear of a top wrestler as both sculpture and painting, emphasizing how force becomes form.
Instead of documenting a single athlete, these works treat the body as evidence—an index of motion, memory, and pressure.
My practice focuses on how physical labor and routine reshape material, identity, and space over time.
Title: Cauliflower Memory_Sculptural Relief (Compressed Series)
Size: 20x12.5x4 in.
Year: 2025
Medium: Sculpey on wood
Description: This sculptural work reinterprets the physical aftermath of wrestling—the “cauliflower ear”—as an imprint of endurance and memory. Each ear, molded in polymer clay, captures the distorted cartilage formed by years of repeated impact and friction.
The deformed surface becomes a topography of effort, a tangible record of time inscribed through discipline. Rather than viewing injury as damage, the piece reframes it as a form of resilience—an embodied archive of persistence and recovery.
Title: Cauliflower Memory _ Painting (Compressed Series)
Size: 19x8.5x1.5 in.
Year: 2025
Medium: Acrylic painting on wood
DescriptionThe accompanying paintings translate the same deformed forms into color and texture. Rendered in acrylic, the ears are reimagined not as wounds but as portraits of perseverance. Through layered hues of red, violet, and flesh tones, the paintings emphasize swelling, bruising, and the slow process of healing. Here, the body is transformed into both evidence and metaphor—what was once pain becomes a visual meditation on endurance, discipline, and the beauty within imperfection.
Title: Cauliflower Memory _ Pattern of Impact (Digital Extension) (Compressed Series)
Size: 13.6x8.1 in.
Year: 2025
Medium: Digital tools (Photoshop, Illustrator)
Description:This graphic poster extends the sculptural reliefs into a digital visual field. Photographs of the clay ears were mirrored, repeated, and distorted to generate a rhythmic pattern resembling skin, muscle, and vibration. The resulting design functions as both abstraction and echo—a visual rhythm of impact, pressure, and memory.
By converting the physical trace of the body into a symmetrical, patterned composition, the work bridges analog and digital archives of endurance. It transforms trauma into texture, marking the point where repetition becomes design, and injury becomes identity.