The Path Appears is a creative practice exploring intuition, truth, and freedom through conscious making.
The process is both slow and impulsive, and always non-linear. Work emerges through circling, translation, layering, and not knowing, shaped by what reveals itself along the way rather than a fixed outcome.
Within this practice, Wet Patience unfolds as an evolving brand using clothing as a primary medium for countercultural expression. Positioned between fashion and art, it resists a world that prioritizes speed, productivity, and performance.
In Wet Patience, surf culture and 70s rock come together to shape the visual language and spirit of the work. They inform an ongoing search for ways of being and living that feel more free, embodied, and true.
My work is deeply influenced by, and in quiet rebellion against, the first 25 years of my life spent inside logic-driven systems: an analytical upbringing, mechanical engineering at MIT, and the speed and performance culture of Bay Area tech. I was taught to be logical, to optimize, to perform, and to make things work.
Along the way, I began to wonder what happens when I stop trying to control everything and start listening instead. What happens when I move through the world guided by feeling and intuition rather than logic and control?
Shown at CCA, April 2026
Circling Light explores shadow through the form of a sponge. I begin by sculpting and observing sponge objects, following their cast shadows and silhouettes. These shadows are enlarged, cut, and re-situated across different environments, where new interactions begin to emerge. Through repeated printing, layering, and recombining, it becomes a generative process, where I move through several iterations and allow the work to evolve through accumulation. The final risograph prints are bound into books, where shadows continue to meet and shift across opposing pages.
Just [liiive] [looove] now is a series of two-plate etching prints (13×19)