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: 28x18.6 in.
Year: 2025
Medium: Photography
Description: Stretched visualizes physical and mental tension through a collaborative performance photography series. Working with fellow wrestlers, the artist documents moments when uniforms are stretched to their limits—bodies caught between force and balance. The photographs capture the resistance, endurance, and unity embedded within these gestures.
In one composition, the wrestlers form a circular arrangement, pulling the fabric outward until it resembles a wrestling mat. The stretched material becomes both a literal and symbolic connector—expressing how individual strength is shaped through collective tension and shared persistence.