Artist Statement:

She followed the light because she was told it would save her.

“The Lanterns Did Not Lead Her Home” explores false promises and ceremonial illusions. The red figure walks through a hall of reverence but what is it honoring? The path before her is not sacred it’s a mirrored echo of her own unraveling.

I wanted to question the aesthetics of tradition: how ritual can sometimes serve as distraction, how beauty can obscure the absence of belonging.

This is not a celebration. It’s a corridor of memory masquerading as purpose.

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Artist Statement:

This piece is about presence after presence has faded. The body is seated, yes but it's not sitting; it's remembering how to be. The smoke is not simply atmospheric it’s mnemonic. Each tendril wraps not around the body, but around the space the body used to claim. There's something elegiac in that gesture. Where Smoke Remembers the Body is a visual confession, a moment where memory surpasses flesh and what's left is the silhouette of longing itself.

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