An Archipelago of Fragile Connections

2020
Branches, repurposed yarn

“Growth is the measure of energy consumption and the measure of the destruction of nature. The more energy we consume, the more nature we destroy.”
— Delphine Batho, 2020

An Archipelago of Fragile Connections reflects on the relationship between material use, energy consumption, and ecological degradation. Every act of extraction and fabrication carries a cost. This awareness extends into my practice: how to make work with limited means, and how to remain accountable to the materials I use.

Art that engages with the Anthropocene—climate change, energy, resources—cannot ignore its own conditions of production. The studio is not outside these systems.

This work embraces modesty and impermanence. It is an invitation to slow down, observe, and accept fragility—our own, and that of the living world. It allows for messiness, uncertainty, and transformation.

These are not stable times. They call for reflection, for connection, and for change—not as a distant possibility, but as an immediate necessity.