Namesake (2026) explores what it means to carry inherited weight as a daughter, a sister, and a link in a chain of women whose lives I can only partly know. I am drawn to the invisible elements of family history: folklore, memories, stories, and silences that are difficult to identify but impossible to let go of. Combining constructed wooden forms with imagery from my family archive, I explore how lived and imagined memories take physical shape. The interaction between ink and wood is central to this process. Where the wood rejects ink, fragmented memories blur or slip away; where the ink settles, something is preserved. The raw wood and imagery evoke the construction of homes and the frameworks we inherit for understanding where we belong and who we come from.

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