Encountering the hard edges of living as an immigrant and global majority artist-mother-educator living in Europe, a certain softness that I have been sowing has permeated my practice over the last few years. This opened many portals to me to observe how we humans relate to each other and the structures that contain us.

Through storytelling, poetry and fiction I delve into questions regarding globalisation, decolonisation, community building, the politics of food, and our relationships as humans with the environment. My work shape-shifts. It often embodies a social sculpture or a community-building frame. Other times it shifts into an installation, an archive, a story, a class, a circle of beings.

Within the process of creation and collective work I re-explore and softly transgress narratives shaped by oppression. In the realm of my work I give agency and voice to plants, carriers, clay and other materials that have relevance in humans’ daily lives.

This approach aims to dismantle the white imperialistic perspective on care, ritual, power, food, the earth and storytelling. It allows me to create worlds of speculation and play with intertwined possibilities of existence.

A welcoming atmosphere to be softly touched. A practice that also flows into the classrooms and workshops I offer.

I am continuously gathering tools that enable me to land in a woven collection of imagined new possibilities. A path to reinvent and tell my — and our — story, re-bond with forms that are familiar to us — vases, water, baskets, blankets, stones — and understand the reciprocity existent in every exchange I — and we — have with them.