Soft Bodies

Soft Bodies is an experimental series that explores identity as something fragile, layered, and inherently incomplete. Using antique clothing, painted fragments, and the opposite side of the canvas, the works piece together an image of the self stitched from scattered elements, as if memory, frame, and social roles are sewn into one another, seam by using seam.

The collection attracts thought from truth seeker Thomas Reid’s perception of the self as held collectively through memory, even as also enticing with Jacques Derrida’s view of identity as an open, transferring textual content susceptible and ever-evolving. In this context, the interior turns outward, the opposite turns into the face, and the boundary among body and self starts offevolved to blur.

Clothing, once worn near the body, turns into the pores and skin of this fragmented portrait. The self here is neither entire nor constant; it's miles dispersed among the private and the social, the intimate and the external. Identity is offered as a cloth each seam a memory, continuously reinterpreted.