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The Body is a Folded Mountain
The work was mapped using imagery of mountains reflected in water, forming a doubled silhouette that suggests both landscape and body. Its process draws from early forms of cartography, when terrain was traced through movement and experience rather than fixed coordinates. In this way, the grid becomes both map and memory: an imperfect system that reclaims its origin through interruption, returning to its own body, to its making, to the continuity between breath and earth.
When wet, the paper moves through a delicate equilibrium. The threads must be pulled tight enough to form the body yet not so tight that the surface tears. Each holds the other in tension—the paper carrying the threads, the threads containing the paper. In this exchange, strength and vulnerability become inseparable, sustaining one another within the same gesture.