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Humans are migratory and territorial, capable of care and of harm. Borders and nations may organize the world, but they also generate exclusion and suffering. Movement is the oldest human story.
Philosopher Thomas Nail describes migration as a central force of history rather than an exception. Gardener-thinker Gilles Clément calls this planetary mixing brassage planétaire: everything, living and nonliving, is in motion and transformed through encounter.
These works reflect on the experiences of recent immigrants—loss, negotiation, resilience, and hope. They complement my sculptures and cyanotype prints shown in my installations folder. I appropriate the hard-edge geometry of modernism and aerial views of borders, camps, roads, seas, and beaches. From afar the paintings read as abstraction; up close, small figures reveal dense and fragile human trajectories.
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