I am a multidisciplinary artist whose work centres around themes of pain and loss of feeling. Rooted in an early fascination with the macabre through music, literature, film, and art, and shaped further by personal experience, my practice explores how familiarity can transform disturbance into comfort. Through ceramics, sculpture, and digital media, my practice confronts the inevitable emotional and physical vulnerability experienced in our cruel world. I aim to provoke visceral, lingering responses in relation to memory, pain, violence, endurance, and the fragility of self-worth. My work embodies personal experiences through an unsettling lens that disrupt comfort for those unfamiliar with these feelings and encounters, exploring the tension between sensation and numbness. My recent work 'HOW FAR ARE YOU WILLING TO GO?' investigates desensitization to violence, suffering, and particularly the romanticization of self-harm in a media-saturated world. Through constant exposure to gore, whether filtered through news, cinema, or social media, our initial shock erodes. Discomfort dulls. Empathy thins. What once disturbed becomes background noise, resulting in complete void of emotion to such content, which in turn can begin to bleed into our perception of real-world pain where violence risks becoming normalized and exploitable. This erosion of feeling can eventually mutate into a form of dependency: the pursuit of increasingly extreme stimuli in an attempt to recover lost sensation and meaning. The intent of my work is to ask; what happens when the ability to feel is entirely lost? Where nothing feels real anymore. When violence becomes aesthetic, consumable, even comforting. Where is the threshold between awareness and indulgence? By facing viewers with this interpretation, I aim to expose the repetitive intoxication of numbness and question; how far we are willing to go just to feel something again?
