Body as protest

Description

This piece emerges from my ongoing exploration of how images carry, lose, and regain meaning. Working with fragments sourced from printed media, I pull visuals away from their familiar narratives and allow them to drift into new relationships. The cut-out silhouette, with its quiet bloom of leaves, and the hybrid bird-human form are both products of this intuitive recomposition—figures that have shed their original contexts to suggest alternate identities. Through layering, dislocation, and careful rearrangement, I seek to reveal how images are never fixed, but constantly reshaped by the act of looking, opening space for stories that are fluid, multiple, and unfinished.
While assembling these fragments, I kept thinking of the unseen lives of women who remain isolated within the home—figures whose presence is often felt only through traces of labour, memory, or silence. The empty silhouette becomes a space for these absences, a body withheld yet still fertile, while the shifting hybrid form hints at resilience and the possibility of transformation.