artist statement
I create immersive altars: non-religious, participatory installations that explore cycles, memory, and liminality.
Spaces where people can pause, decompress through simple rituals, and reconnect with themselves and one another.
These spaces invite visitors to pause, acknowledge their past experiences, close emotional cycles, and connect through simple rituals. Each piece centres on a complete cycle of eight hand-hammered brass moons, a universal rhythm visible in the sky.
My work seeks to revive the rhythms that once marked time, from communal harvests to preparing the ground for spring. As technology, megacities, and globalisation pull us away from nature and erode these traditions, the communal space to honour endings and beginnings is disappearing.
My practice began during the pandemic when I unexpectedly got stuck in South Africa. I built my first altar not as an artwork, but as a way to stay balanced. I planted a bush in the garden and hid a crystal in its roots, making a secret space just for myself. Through daily rituals, I realised that an altar can hold what really matters — there is no audience to please, so I could have an honest dialogue with myself. Ultimately, I build altars to offer secular spaces where people can process transitions, reconnect with nature and one another, and find their own cycles of loss and renewal.
I build with repurposed wood, oxidised brass, and flea-market finds, forming spaces that can appear in a garden, a gallery, or a desert.
Visitors are invited to invent their own rituals or follow a simple prompt: write a note to your younger self, or move through zones to reflect, make an offering, and plant seeds as a symbol of new beginnings. I try to design intuitive environments rather than prescriptions, so the work completes itself through participation. Each installation is less a fixed object than a living space of co-creation.
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