Artist Statement 

My practice explores wholeness as a relational condition shaped by material, ecological, and embodied systems. Working across installation, print, sculpture, and time-based media, I engage research-creation methodologies that treat materials not as passive matter, but as active participants in meaning-making.

Plants, particularly those situated within histories of folk medicine, land use, and cultural transmission, serve as recurring collaborators in my work. Through processes such as video, print, and durational material studies, I examine how resilience, adaptation, and care are carried across environments and bodies. These investigations are informed by traditions embedded in my Southern Italian heritage, where plant knowledge, land, and community are inseparable, as well as by contemporary environmental research and interdisciplinary collaboration.

My work often takes the form of accumulative or informal archival structures, collections of impressions, residues, and fragments that resist singular narratives. Rather than offering fixed conclusions, these assemblages invite viewers into a space of slow looking and attunement, foregrounding interdependence and vulnerability as generative forces.

Across projects, I am interested in how knowledge is held, translated, and shared, particularly where scientific, cultural, and lived systems intersect. By emphasizing process, repetition, and material sensitivity, my practice seeks to create conditions for reflection on how we relate to one another, to land, and to the unseen systems that sustain life.

 

Updated 2026