The Mending Mind is a single work composed of nine circular pieces constructed from discarded fabrics and papers—materials that function as remains, as evidence, as memory. Sparked by an ongoing emotional response to widespread displacement—of people through war, of animals and forests through urban development and climate change—this body of work emerges from a world that feels increasingly fractured. Each piece traces a progression from fragmentation and collision through disorientation, release, and negotiation, toward coalescence, integration, and resonance—arriving not at resolution, but at wisdom.
Rooted in the symbolic weight of the number nine as both completion and transition, the series reflects on what it means to move through disruption—personal, environmental, and collective—and emerge altered. Life as we know it can feel as though it is breaking, fragmenting, and falling apart; yet alongside this rupture, there is also resilience—habits shifting, awareness deepening, and more intentional ways of being beginning to surface. The fragments are not resolved into perfection; they retain their edges, their histories.
Here, wisdom is not clean. Harmony is not ideal. Unity does not erase difference. It is built slowly, through tension, endurance, and the willingness to hold complexity.
Mending is not an end point, but an ongoing process—a threshold where what has been carried, witnessed, and endured becomes understanding, and the possibility of something more whole.
