This selection brings together works from different periods, as old as 2008, linked by a shared gesture: the sewing of old sketches. I have long been drawn to collage, though I abandoned gluing—both for ecological reasons and beyond—and focus here exclusively on works involving stitching. Throughout my practice, collage has functioned less as a final product and more as a process, privileging concept and making over outcome. It becomes a visual synthesis of its own creation, a metalanguage of the image—one that, as Rosalind Krauss writes, “speaks of space without using it, figures figuration through the continuous overlapping of grounds.”

As my engagement with the two-dimensional surface expanded toward the three-dimensional, the visual content grew increasingly abstract, accompanied by a dense accumulation of heterogeneous materials. This shift led me toward ideas of circular economy and regenerative recycling (cradle-to-cradle), which I now explore in recent installations. Yet everything began with a needle and thread, as an attempt to stabilize the memory of the past.