Cane Toad Studios

I search for what remains when a memory is worn thin.

My work is rooted in the quiet rituals of home and the materials that carry a sense of inheritance, including wood, linen, and familiar patterns. I return to dresses and sheets on the line as both subject and symbol. These fabrics hold the presence of those who lived within them. Washed, worn, and reused, they carry the rhythm of daily life and an attachment to traditions shaped through repetition.

Using a process of saturating the surface with monochromatic oil paint and wiping it away while still wet, I reveal fragments beneath. This act of removal becomes a form of excavation. What emerges is partial and shifting, a space where past and present overlap and where memory is not fixed, but continually altered through use.

I think of memory as something that frays over time. It softens, thins, and unravels at the edges, yet continues to hold. It lives in the repetition of domestic gestures and in the trace left behind after something has been washed, handled, and returned again.

Through painting and installation, I explore the relationship between heritage and home, tracing what is passed down, what is altered through care and repetition, and what fades. To be worn thin is not only to disappear, but to gather history, memory, and self into a quieter, more fragile form.