Coherence

Coherence emerged from a series of conversations—one leading quietly into another, then another—until I found myself far from where I had begun. I felt carried by an unseen current toward a new understanding.

At first, everything seemed to turn upside down and inside out. Then, slowly, fragments of memory began to gather into pattern. Experiences once held as confusion, sensitivity, or contradiction started to reveal a deeper coherence. What had long felt scattered was not scattered at all—only differently organized.

For many people, neurodivergence is still imagined through a narrow lens. But there are countless ways of perceiving, sensing, relating, and moving through the world. This work emerges from the experience of receiving a very late diagnosis of autism and looking back across a lifetime through that new lens.

These sculptures are not about brokenness or repair. They are about recognition, about understanding the body and mind as carrying their own internal architecture, rhythms, and logic. Artist-made paper, thread, photographic fragments, and layered surfaces become metaphors for memory, perception, and the quiet work of holding oneself together. The physical construction of these works mirrors the inner process from which they emerge. Photographic composites coated with wax are reflective of time spent in the jungle, a place where I experience a profound sense of embodied connection. Fragile strands are combined, intertwined, and reformed into structures that hold both delicacy and resilience, gathered slowly into coherence.