All of Us — in Forms
What binds us is the search for who we are. To return to something closer to nature, where authenticity remains untouched. These forms drift between what is learned and wha is true, echoing the many selves we carry within.

Ink on antique French book pages (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1826), cotton paper
Collage
Framed, 50 × 65 cm

This work is composed of a grid of ink drawings on 200-year-old French book pages, originally part of philosophical texts by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. By working directly onto these historical fragments, the piece engages with Rousseau’s idea that identity is shaped by both nature and society, and that something essential within us remains untouched beneath that layer.

Each element within the grid functions as a fragment: individual in gesture, yet inseparable from the whole. The repeated, organic forms move between figuration and abstraction, suggesting bodies, seeds, or internal structures. Subtle variations in rhythm and density create a sense of movement and accumulation, rather than repetition.

The underlying text remains partially visible, acting as both a conceptual and visual foundation. Language — once used to define thought and identity — is interrupted and recontextualized through ink. What remains is a dialogue between past and present, structure and instinct.

The grid introduces order, while the hand resists uniformity. Together, the elements reflect identity as something layered, multiple, and continuously forming — not singular, but composed of many parts held together.