Rolling ink over my daughter's outgrown swimsuit combined with paper and extreme pressure reveals details that are not obvious at first glance. Art can be a lens to probe these objects in much the same way an x-ray photograph gives us access to the inner workings of the human body. These discarded remnants of everyday life, are elevated as icons of interpersonal connections and as relics of ephemerality, memory, passage and loss. The wear and tear of well worn objects reveals deeply personal and broadly collective experiences on a more cellular level. The swimsuit we no longer use retains the traces of our lives and of our bodies, thereby becoming a testimony.
--2023