Embryos
watercolor on paper
2019 -
I hope to continue developing my ongoing project Embryos (2019–present), a body of work exploring motherhood and storytelling. In this series, I paint portraits of participants’ stories about giving birth, not giving birth, being born, and spiritual rebirth, visualizing these experiences as symbolic “embryos.”
Each embryo is painted with watercolour on 20 × 20 cm Khadi paper. The project began during my own transition into the new identity of a mother and through natural conversations with other mothers about their birth stories. These intimate and profound exchanges are encoded into each embryo—each form encapsulates the story, the way it was told, and the energy it holds.
Through this project, I aim to document and translate these stories into emblematic forms of embryos, connecting storytelling, spirituality, and hope. I explore the embryo as both an abstract shape and a symbol linked to the mythological idea of the cosmic egg, as well as to microscopic life forms, while reflecting on translation and sign-making as a way to bridge language, emotion, and form.
Dah Dah Dah Dah Dah Dit Dah Dah Dah Dah (binary code 0 and 1 written in Morse code)
watercolor on paper
80 x 200 cm
2018
As a precursor to the project Brave New World, this painting initiates an inquiry into the “embryo” as a vessel of the universe — a capsule of the self, of matter, and of time. The title, rendered as “0” and “1” in Morse code, stretches in a quiet horizontal line across the centre, suggesting the binary pulse of creation and void, signal and silence.
Around it, egg-shaped abstract forms emerge and dissolve across shifting scales: cosmic eggs, alchemical spheres, planetary bodies, microorganisms, embryos. Each oscillates between the infinitesimal and the infinite. The anonymity of these forms mirrors the digital code itself — faceless yet generative — where the micro and the macro fold into one another. The terrain of fine algorithmic lines traces this connection, mapping an unseen logic that binds life and computation, origin and evolution.