Traces

Traces

Traces

What traces endure,

and how do they shape what is?

What traces endure,

and how do they shape what is?

Traces is an inquiry into what is left behind—and what continues. Within bodies, cultures, and landscapes lie records whose origins may be gone, yet whose imprints persist like ghosts. Erosion leaves both loss and changed habitat; some voices outlive their speakers, reaching generations not yet born; grief may persist in a changed gait. The present moment evaporates, but what occurred lingers.

These works approach trace as both residue and ongoing force: the past does not merely lead into the present—it gives the present its shape.

These works approach trace as both residue and ongoing force: the past does not merely lead into the present—it gives the present its shape.

WORK / ENCOUNTER

NOTES / THINKING

Gently,

POETRY · 2024

gently, i hold this injured heart.

raw and tattered.

still beating,

and beating.

years of tears pump

through arteries and veins,

recycled as if

scarce.

maybe it’s in knowing

the release of crying

will bring healing.

a crashed wave, pulling

the shore, dragging back

into the ocean.

The poem lingers in what the body cannot yet release; an old wound carried forward as pressure, circulation, and yearning.

NOTES / THINKING

release isn't chosen. it's a state emerging from a crossed threshold, and a sense of safety.

release feels less like an action and more like a state emerging from specific conditions and a threshold.

tears -> arteries -> ocean

tears -> arteries -> ocean

emotional injury becoming recirculation

injury as interrupted circulation

Remain

INSTALLATION · 2026

Visitors were invited to hold in mind something that made their heart feel full, then offer fifteen seconds of stillness or movement. Their gestures were translated into points within a communal field. Each body departed; its spatial trace remained among the others.

Visitors were invited to hold in mind something that made their heart feel full, then offer fifteen seconds of stillness or movement. Their gestures were translated into points within a communal field. Each body departed; its spatial trace remained among the others.

Kinect Depth Capture / TouchDesigner

Kinect Depth Capture / TouchDesigner

individual gesture

↓

collective environment


collective environment

residue

Remain—Notebook Sketch

Remain—Notebook Sketch

i found that sampling one frame per second felt very sculptural. the original plan was to keep continuous animations.

NOTES / THINKING

Practice


Meet


Listen


Ink & Bone

a breathing world

tended by ash forest