Language as Memory
STRAND II
Identity and geography encoded through text
This strand explores language as a repository of personal and collective memory. Rather than functioning as a stable system, text here behaves as unstable recall — fragmenting, distorting, and reforming in response to psychological and geographic experience.
Drawing from sleep diaries, personal archives, and landscapes of significance, these works examine how identity is assembled through partial remembrance. Legibility fluctuates; letters blur into atmosphere. Meaning becomes provisional.
In this context, writing operates as an index of consciousness — revealing the fragility of perception and the constructed nature of selfhood.
2018 - Print, Digital, Multiple Resolutions
Lucid
Lucid originates from a sustained sleep diary recorded over several months. Extracts of text are embedded within fluid simulations, where language stretches, ripples, and dissolves across a shifting surface.
Legibility is deliberately unstable, mirroring the difficulty of retaining dream imagery upon waking. The work positions text as a permeable membrane between conscious and unconscious states.
RECENT EXHIBITION HISTORY
London Stock Exchange, 2025
Aures, 2025
Pathos - 2023
SOURCE MATERIAL
Sleep diary extracts
EDITIONS
Limited print editions of 15
Set of unique NFTs
INSTALLATION FORMATS
Lucid may be exhibited as a projection-based installation or as a continuous looped digital environment. The work adapts to screen and projection dimensions and can run as a durational piece of indefinite length.
2021 - Archival Ink on Diabond
Mosaics
Mosaics translates topographic data from locations of personal significance into abstract typographic landscapes. Terrain is encoded using characters drawn from texts written about each site, merging geography with language.
The result is a layered cartography of memory — where place and narrative interweave into a unified visual field.
RECENT EXHIBITION HISTORY
Design District - 2021
SOURCE MATERIAL
Topographic data interpreted from personally significant locations
SCALE
1m × 1m (primary)
40cm × 40cm (secondary)
INSTALLATION FORMATS
The series functions effectively as a wall-based installation or as part of a larger immersive environment. Works can be presented individually, as a diptych, or as an extended series across a gallery wall.