My practice investigates the visceral relationship between tension, abjection, compulsion and the psychological pressure placed on the human body. I explore the physical consequences of feeling ‘stretched thin’ psychologically by addressing my own personal experiences with compulsive skin picking. Using everyday materials like tights and scrap fabrics, I stretch, bind and tear textiles over wooden frames, myself and walls. By warping and contorting the elasticity of nylon layered over red fabrics, my work mimics the fragile texture of bruised or damaged skin. Through the extreme tension of these soft materials fighting against hard structures, my sculptures become physical depiction of stress that is constantly suspended in a state of potential rupture.
Moving beyond static objects, my practice extends into photographic self-portraiture by binding materials directly to my face to record the raw, physical reality of restricted skin. Staging this is equally crucial to the experience of my work as, treating gallery walls as a base to create tension across or within at eye level, I force a direct and unavoidable confrontation with the viewer. The brutality of tension refuses subtlety.

Ultimately, my work seeks to visualise the cumulative impact of psychological stress. Rather than treating the compulsion to pick or wound the body as a destructive flaw, I position these small and violent rituals as desperate survival mechanisms used to regulate the overwhelming pressures of daily life. My practice refuses to sanitise these experiences and feelings, demanding that we validate the anxious body and view any manifestations of psychological stress as the only visible evidence of the invisible weight of living.