Architecture of Human Ties
Architecture of Human Ties (2025) is an exploration of how social systems and the organic world intersect, collide, and intertwine. Using oil pastel, I construct spaces where structural forms—corners, junctions, and frameworks—become metaphors for the invisible architectures that govern human connection. These are not static buildings, but shifting structures that mirror the complexity of belonging, isolation, and interdependence in contemporary life.
Within these frameworks, I invite organic gestures—suggestions of flowers seen close-up, forms that push against the rigidity of corners, roots that seem to grow through walls. This interplay embodies the tension between the constructed and the natural, between the systems we impose and the ways humanity insists on flourishing within and beyond them.
The intimacy of oil pastel, with its tactile surfaces and layered strokes, allows for immediacy and vulnerability. Each work is both blueprint and bloom, structure and softening.
Architecture of Human Ties proposes that the spaces between us—our junctions, edges, and thresholds—are not empty, but full of possibility. These works invite viewers to see the fragility and resilience of our shared systems, and to imagine a more organic architecture of human connection.
