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.
Size: Bench (39x17x10 in.), Kettlebell (16x22x3.5 in.), Dumbbell (13x6.75x6.75 in.)
Year: 2025
Medium: Mixed media (Color printout on paper, steel, photograph)
Description: Stacking explores how time, identity, and physical labor accumulate into visual form. The series consists of two works that transform the history of athletic training into layered material structures. In the sculptural piece, photographs of wrestlers in stretched poses were printed, folded, and densely stacked into compact paper blocks, then inserted into steel gym-like frames. Each folded layer serves as a record of repetition and endurance—compressing time, effort, and memory into a single physical mass.
Size: 23.6 × 15.8 in.
Year: 2025
Medium: Acrylic painting on wood
Description: Stratum explores how time, identity, and physical labor accumulate into layered form. The series transforms the history of athletic training into both structural and pictorial archives of endurance.
In the sculptural piece, printed images of stretched wrestling poses are folded and densely stacked into compact paper blocks, encased within steel gym-like frames. Each folded layer functions as a record of repetition and effort—compressing time, energy, and memory into a singular body.
The accompanying painting, Stratum, reinterprets years of training through the visual archive of uniforms. Each carefully folded garment embodies the weight of seasons spent in practice, preserving traces of accumulated identity and silent discipline. Together, these works reveal the physicality of time itself—layer upon layer, built through perseverance.