Jabuticaba, Casca.
Jabuticaba is a series that explores the Jabuticaba fruit from Brazil. Jabuticaba trees are commonly found around the country sound of São Paulo and posses a unique relationship to the local culture. This project is designed as a series that investigates the materiality of the fruit. This particular work examines the texture and skin of the fruit post consumption. Jabuticaba skins are not swallowed and when spat out contort and contract , seedless, and divided from its round and plump shape.
Seasons
Seasons is a work that investigates the encounter between nature and a desired aesthetic. Plants adapt and grow in certain places, yet wither and die out in others. This series explores desired states of natures when encountered with tension and different representations of nature through fibers.
Encounter: tensions
Encounter: tensions is a work that investigates the moment of interaction between tension, pattern, repetition, movement, and material. Thread is embroidered in various ways across the three works and serve as contrast to one another. Charcoal is also used to contrast the difference between the consistency of the material as a fading encounter and the tension that thread holds as it attaches to the material.
Summer Silence
Summer silence seeks to explore space through contrast, repetition, patter, and patchwork.
Withered
withered uses material left out in the abu dhabi weather for a 3 year period. Deteriorated and crumpled from the heat, sunlight, and occasional rain, the material is restructured to push the boundaries of its own fragility.
Mafubá
Mafubá is a soft sculpture that speaks to the quotidian objects in Brazil. Mafubá is a play on Mafūba, a martial arts move featured in the Dragon Ball series. In the show, the move is a sealing technique that traps an opponent inside any object if it is attached with a seal after use.
This sculpture places the mafubá (spelled with an accent on the a reminiscent of Brazilian fubá) object as a traditional Brazilian clay water filter. Using scrap fabric, the work explores a quotidian object present to every-day frustration through embroidery, patchwork, sewing, stuffing, and string.
