I’m Fine. How Are You?

When someone asks how you are and you reply ‘fine’, what does that really mean? This body of work explores ‘FINE’ - feelings inside not expressed.

Working primarily in ceramics, alongside paper and embroidery, the work emerges from lived human experience and examines how words, relationships, messages, and encounters can impact, trigger, wound, and push us towards states of precarity, doubt, and vulnerability.

The work has developed through explorations of language and writing. Through processes of overwriting, redaction, and distortion, creating images and forms that retain fragile traces of memory, diary, and narrative while resisting clear articulation or comprehension. In this sense, the work reflects both the instability of language and the apparent delicacy of materials.

At the same time, ideas of control, protection, safety, and containment run throughout the work. From the use of lists to precarious lines, grids, and monochrome palette, the word gestures towards the systems and structures we create in an attempt to impose order and maintain control.