Painting, Oil on Canvas, 24.36 Inches, 2019
When the body becomes landscape, soft Geographies considers place as an embodied experience, formed through sensation, spatial orientation, and lived presence. Soft Geographies explores the body as a mutable site of memory, displacement, and spatial negotiation. Through fluid, abstracted forms and layered chromatic transitions, the works propose geography not as a fixed cartographic system but as an embodied, affective terrain shaped by migration, cultural translation, and lived experience.
These series emphasize surfaces that resist stable boundaries, suggesting instead a continuous process of becoming, where identity unfolds across shifting psychological and physical landscapes. Positioned between figurative and abstraction, the imagery evokes corporeal fragments, folds, and passages without settling into representation. This ambiguity allows the works to operate as speculative maps of what might be called tactile or emotional geographies, where personal history, diasporic consciousness, and sensory memory intersect. In this sense, Soft Geographies reflect on how place is carried within the body, how belonging remains provisional, and how movement reshapes both perception and self-definition.
