Artist Statement 

This series explores softness as both refuge and resistance. Representing different times of day, the clouds function as emotional landscapes — suspended, shifting, and shaping interior states. The works offer a surreal meditation on the entanglement of emotions, identities, and quiet longings, bringing together two recurring motifs in my practice: clouds and vines.

Where the clouds drift, the vines anchor. Where the atmosphere feels weightless, organic growth insists on connection. Coexisting in a strange but beautiful unity, these elements reflect the tension between vulnerability and endurance. The series considers what it means to hold tenderness within environments that often demand hardness and impose urgency as a condition for survival.

The use of mixed media introduces physical texture, grounding the dreamlike imagery in material reality. Raised surfaces interrupt the illusion of softness, suggesting that even the most delicate states are shaped by lived experience. Here, dreams become sites of quiet negotiation; spaces where identity stretches, coils, and reforms. In these suspended environments, fragility is not weakness but a condition for growth, and tenderness emerges as a deliberate architecture of survival.

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