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FUGUE,

2026 - Ongoing

A dotted blank canvas of what appress to be a portrait
A person's eye peeking out from beneath their arm, with their hand resting on their face, and another person's hand gently touching their arm.

Borrowing from the musical form, Fugue explores the return of a theme through variation and transformation. Here, the recurring theme is the self-image ; printed, altered, reintroduced into the landscape, and encountered again in a new state.

Through this cyclical process, the work explores identity as something continually shaped through relationship: with image, material, time, memory, and the living world.

The landscape becomes an active participant rather than a backdrop, transforming the image as much as the image enters the landscape. What remains is not a fixed portrait, but a trace of presence, constantly changing, dissolving, and becoming.

A printed picture of the back of a person's head with short curly hair, colored in shades of blue, is taped to the trunk of a large tree in a forest.
A fallen tree on a forest floor with green foliage and branches, with a fallen poster of a person's portrait attached to a tree in the background.
A tree trunk with textured bark and green moss, with a piece of paperattached to it, held in place by a small black clip, in a forest setting.
Close-up of a face, scanned and distorted with dot pattern on the image.
Close-up of a scanned distorted face, partially covered with dots drawn on it.
Close-up black and white photograph of a human face, with the eyes closed, showing detailed skin texture and shading.
Close-up of a newsprint paper with black polka dots partially covered by a black marker pen, on a wooden surface.