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Erratic explores the fragile, often invisible gestures of belonging in a foreign landscape. Years spent navigating unfamiliar terrain leave traces of displacement, cultural friction, and quiet detachment, marks that linger in both body and material.

The work takes its name from the geological term Glacial Erratic — a rock carried far from its origin by glaciers, deposited among unfamiliar surroundings, differing in size and structure from the landscape where it rests. Like these stones, the works carry the tension of being out of place, of persisting where they never fully belong.

Broken weaves, melting surfaces, folded forms, and sedimented layers trace the delicate struggle of presence. Threads fray, pigments shift, and materials bend toward integration, yet resist complete settling. In these gestures, the work observes the quiet friction of attempting to root oneself, the subtle victories and failures that mark a life in transit, always negotiating between foreignness and fleeting familiarity.