Ecosphere
Identity is a slippery concept. Layers of influence of the collective and the individual, cultural and geographical, both real and imagined, shape us. As an artist, immigrant, and a woman, I am a combination of many identities. Each of them create their own tectonic movements. They converge, diverge and transform. They are separated and connected at the same time. My practice examines social fragmentation, layers of identity and assigned cultural and stereotypical roles, obligations and expectations.
My artistic process is multilayered. First, I create microscopic images of symbolic subjects from biofluids to family heirlooms , everyday objects to objects of memory. While intimately observing these personal icons I am an insider and an outsider simultaneously, a specimen and an observer. I dissect social, political and cultural expectations and roles. The microscopic images are used to create digital negatives which are then distressed by hand. They are destroyed and re-invented by the use of various alternative processes.
The process bridge the digital and the analog, the traditional and the modern, the past and the present while going back and forth between control and artistic experimentation. I am interested how these various elements work jointly and against one another. Exploring the losses and gains from each of these relationships, I am allowing new opportunities to surface and to create a rich tapestry of contrasts, unexpected juxtapositions and universal meanings.
