A Manual for Ordinary Things

1: How to Roll the Boulder ( Drawings )

2: How to Roll the Boulder again ( Sculptures )

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This body of work emerges from living across distance, rupture, and ongoing events that continue to shape life elsewhere. It comes from a diasporic condition where daily life and distant realities unfold at the same time, creating a sense of divided continuity and grief as an ongoing state.

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Language often proves insufficient to hold this experience, which settles in the body. Breath, posture, and simple presence carry what does not resolve. Living is reduced to continuing. At a distance, repetition becomes a way of orientation, and returning to the act keeps the body in motion when words do not.

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The works form through sustained acts of making. This labor persists as a form of response and a quiet refusal to withdraw. Forms return, shift, gather, and disperse. Figures appear in unstable states, moving between visibility and disappearance, carrying traces of shared histories shaped by pressure and endurance.

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The repeated return to material places making close to the movement associated with Sisyphus, where the turn back toward the task becomes part of the structure of continuing. What makes Sisyphus a contemporary figure is the moment he turns back toward the stone, when no new hope appears, yet movement does not stop.

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