Soft Sculpture & The Vagina Paintings (2025)
My practice unfolds across painting, sculpture, and text as an evolving exploration of the feminine body, its memory, power, and presence. The vagina paintings mark one beginning. I paint vaginas as sites of both material and symbolic force. Through abstraction, I approach the body not merely as form, but as a vessel of wisdom, embodied knowledge, and creative energy. These large-scale canvases pulse with raw honesty, inviting viewers into intimacy, beyond the word vagina, into sensation, presence, and deeper meaning. For me, the vaginal form transcends anatomy; it is visionary and generative, the sacred origin from which all life emerges, the root of my healing power.
The text paintings parallel and extend this inquiry. Words embedded in paint anchor emotion, vulnerability, and affirmation. Language becomes a threshold between intellect and sensation, between what is spoken and what the body already knows. In their starkness, these works both confront and soothe, insisting on the legibility of feeling. Together, the vagina paintings and the text paintings form a dialogue, one visceral, one linguistic, each reclaiming feminine power, each breaking silence.
From this lineage, the soft sculptures emerged. They began as the HUG: oversized limbs looping into ambiguous embraces, gestures that teeter between safety and danger. These works extended the intimacy of painting into space, embodying touch as sculpture. At once playful and uncanny, they echoed the comfort of childhood objects while carrying the psychic weight of adult emotion. Over time, the limbs grew into full-bodied female forms, complete with vaginas. Life-sized, sewn companions that inhabit space not as static figures, but as witnesses, provocateurs, and participants in a collective encounter.
Where the vagina paintings invite inward reflection, the sculptures externalize intimacy, softening the monumental and monumentalizing softness. Made from repurposed materials, they carry a lived texture, reminding us that nurture and care always hold paradox - the embrace that cradles can also consume. If the paintings are portals, the sculptures are presences.
Together, these works form a continuum. From gesture on canvas, to word as anchor, to softness inhabiting physical space. At the heart of this continuum stands Tilde. The building serve as a container for my threads, my work periods, my shifting styles. Tilde embodies my artistic journey, with all of its aspirations, its labor, its successes and failures. It is not a separate chapter but the frame through which all the works breathe together, interwoven and interdependent.
The paintings opened the portal, the texts gave it language, and the sculptures walked through, transforming vision into embodied environment. Across them all, the feminine body remains central: as origin, as memory, as vessel, as future.
