Nothing is lost … everything is transformed.
⸺ Michael Ende ⸺
2024 ⸺ 2025
Fragmentations
Reclaimed + patched works
In my studio, discarded Washi papers accumulate — sketches, damaged drawings, failed attempts, and only partially successful works. Made from natural materials, often handcrafted, they are too valuable to simply discard.
Drawing from the Japanese Boro tradition — the practice of patching and mending textile, celebrating repair and imperfection — and the concept of fragmentation in computer science — the division of data into arbitrary, non-contiguous parts — this series explores creation through transformation. What was once set aside is reclaimed, reworked, and given new meaning.
The series unfolds in two distinct approaches:
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Grids
2024 ⸺ 2025
Fragments cut and reassembled into structured, repetitive compositions — a grid that recalls architecture and textile as much as the digital pixel. Sometimes even, sometimes in bands of varying height, like sediment layers. The inspiration is both ancient and contemporary: brickwork, Tatami mats, sliding doors, Kelim patterns. Elements that, repeated and combined, become more than the sum of their parts.
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Fragmentation N°51
70 × 100 × 4 cm ⸺ 2024
Private collection, Salzburg
Fragmentation N°63
70 × 100 × 4 cm ⸺ 2024
Fragmentation N°50
30 × 60 × 3 cm ⸺ 2024
Fragmentation N°49
70 × 100 × 4 cm ⸺ 2024
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Swatches
2026
Each sheet brings together four fragments in a fixed format — offcuts, test pieces, parts of works that never found their form. Selected, cut, and reassembled into a single composition.
Nothing here was made for the piece. Everything was already there, waiting in a box for the right company. What holds each sheet together is not a subject but a chord: four tones, four textures, four moments that turn out to belong to one another.
The logic is that of a sample book — a collection of possibilities, ordered and named.
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Pale Hours | Fragmentation N°86
35 × 50 cm ⸺ 2026
Sumi Rain | Fragmentation N°91
35 × 50 cm ⸺ 2026
Patina | Fragmentation N°104
35 × 50 cm ⸺ 2026
Kasane | 襲 | Fragmentation N°89
35 × 50 cm ⸺ 2026
Water Grays | Fragmentation N°94
35 × 50 cm ⸺ 2026
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Memories
2024 ⸺ 2025
Smaller collaged and overpainted paperworks — quieter, freer, more intimate. Fragments from the past brought together into something calm and harmonious.
We believe memories are true — but they are not. We reshape them, tint them, forget them. Sometimes I can no longer distinguish between what I actually remember and what I have been told so often it became real. I gather these fragments, rearrange them, and after a while, they become their own reality.
Maybe even a true memory.
Each piece is presented behind a passepartout — like a photograph in a frame, kept and looked at again.
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Sodalite Cloud | Fragmentation N°79
18 × 24 cm / 30 × 40 cm incl. mat ⸺ 2025
Private collection, Milano
Fragmentation N°69
18 × 13 cm / 30 × 24 cm incl. mat ⸺ 2024
Rose-Colored | Fragmentation N°83
20 × 20 cm / 40 × 40 cm incl. mat ⸺ 2025
Auf der Mauer … | Fragmentation N°71
18 × 13 cm / 30 × 24 cm incl. mat ⸺ 2025
Private collection, London
Rusty Memory | Fragmentation N°70
18 × 24 cm / 30 × 40 cm incl. mat ⸺ 2025