Warm Wax & Tender Fibers
2025
2023
How do memories, places and time carve and echo into the environment surrounding us?
warm wax & tender fibers weaves together natural materials gathered and harvested from my homes garden with surplus traditional batik fabric from Indonesia. Interacting with my cultural background, means to observe in fragments and pieces, fragments and pieces of familiar as well as unfamiliar bits and parts. Navigating a landscape of history, belonging and positioning. The work embodies the interweaving engagement of me sitting and being with my heritage and garden.
Simultaneously, warm wax & tender fibers is also a slow approach into my families history, where my great-grandma was once a pembatik, the work reimagines her touch and delicate hands making the batik through a contemporary lens of cultural flux.
As materials are woven together, histories blend and transform, creating a dialogue between what once was and what has emerged. A quiet interplay of material memory, where each branch, bark and fiber holds echoes of time and transformation and each stroke of hot wax carefully carries cultural history.
The work becomes an artifact of being in a time and place, how we interweave ourselves with its history and environment, as well as how we can exist and rise from fragments of who we are.
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warm wax & tender fibers weaves together natural materials gathered and harvested from my homes garden with surplus traditional batik fabric from Indonesia. Interacting with my cultural background, means to observe in fragments and pieces, fragments and pieces of familiar as well as unfamiliar bits and parts. Navigating a landscape of history, belonging and positioning. The work embodies the interweaving engagement of me sitting and being with my heritage and garden.
Simultaneously, warm wax & tender fibers is also a slow approach into my families history, where my great-grandma was once a pembatik, the work reimagines her touch and delicate hands making the batik through a contemporary lens of cultural flux.
As materials are woven together, histories blend and transform, creating a dialogue between what once was and what has emerged. A quiet interplay of material memory, where each branch, bark and fiber holds echoes of time and transformation and each stroke of hot wax carefully carries cultural history.
The work becomes an artifact of being in a time and place, how we interweave ourselves with its history and environment, as well as how we can exist and rise from fragments of who we are.
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Tapestry
190cm x 137cm
Batik Fabrics and Natural Materials
Oak Frame Mounted
2025
#2
190cm x 137cm
Batik Fabrics and Natural Materials
Oak Frame Mounted
2025
#2
Tapestry
130cm x 110cm
Surplus Batik and Natural Materials
#1
Woven Shoes
Diverse Sizes
Natural Materials
130cm x 110cm
Surplus Batik and Natural Materials
#1
Woven Shoes
Diverse Sizes
Natural Materials