Chiharu Shiota - Individual Consciousness, 2024

Shiota’s influence on my practice grew from the interconnectedness between memory and mystery, the internal and external spaces of knowing and not knowing. Mystery, spirituality, sacred.

My practice connects with Shiota’s through shared elements of earth, umbilical threads, and maternal memory - creating immersive spaces where remembrance and experience meet, shaping a bridge between the mysterious and the remembered, liminal and experiential.

Cecilia Vicuna - Quipu Menstrual

Vicuna’s work influences my own by shaping my understanding of art as ritual, ancestral and memory, offerings of cultural recollection reaching through time, interconnected and embodied.

I connect my practice to Vicuna through menstruation, the liturgy, acts of prayer, drawing the audience toward encounter and ritual, pulling the threads of the red umbilical cord that binds and connects, aligning the menstrual rope of the feminine, the ancestral feminine that invokes memory, time, ritual and mystery.