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: Discipline in Multiples (Repeated Series)
Size: 28.5x40 in.
Year: 2025
Medium: Silkscreen print
Description: Discipline in Multiples examines repetition as both an athletic method and an artistic discipline. Starting from archived photographs of wrestling practice, the artist redrew each image and transferred it onto silkscreen. Through the repetitive acts of layering ink, pressing, and reprinting, the process mirrors the physical drills of training.
Each print varies slightly yet collectively forms a visual rhythm—a meditation on precision and endurance. The silkscreen becomes an instrument of discipline, where mastery emerges not through singular achievement but through accumulation. The series ultimately reveals repetition as a quiet act of persistence and self-definition.