Overglaze
Nails give me language to speak about the body without depicting it, to examine its vulnerabilities through fragments rather than full forms; they form a rhythmic field that are at once hard and delicate, painful and intimate. The process of shaping each nail became a form of respite during an abrupt, disorienting breakup - an experience that split open the emotional and sensory terrain I often explore. Repetition offered steadiness, and the quiet rhythm of sculpting allowed me to redirect the intensity of grief into material form. The nails hold this duality: they echo tools meant to pierce or bind, yet their surfaces are rendered with a softness that resists violence. In their accumulation, they mirror the way emotional experience can overwhelm, sharpen, or numb. Utilizing controlled gestures and the disciplined act of repetition, I investigate in this piece how the body processes rupture and how memory settles into material.