In Transposition
2025-2026
In this body of work, that attention is focused on books—not as vessels for information alone, but as material objects shaped by time, use, and touch. The edges of pages, the grain of paper, and the way light settles into folds and surfaces hold traces of both origin and history, linking the book to the tree from which it came and to the many hands that have passed it along.
Many of the books I work with are old and well-used, some from my own family. Their wear carries a quiet record of ownership and attention, even when specific stories are unknown. By isolating fragments of text or obscuring language entirely, I am interested in how meaning shifts when words are removed from context. Read aloud, words become sound; even when unreadable, they retain rhythm and presence. What remains is not a narrative to be read, but an encounter with material, memory, and time—waiting to be known.
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