Unspoken Fragments

Unspoken Fragments explores grief and longing through analog collage, using unexpected juxtapositions, negative space, and fragments of song lyrics—echoes of memory and the things left unsaid.

Love came into my life like a tornado. It carried me so high I felt as if I were touching the sun, but like Icarus, the ascent—magnificent, blazing, impossible to resist—was fleeting, and the fall left me in an emotional fog that threatened to consume me.

This collection is my attempt to make sense of the wreckage—born from the raw vulnerability of love, the paralyzing despair of heartbreak, and the bittersweetness of grief.

Hand-cut from art books, independent fashion magazines, scientific journals, and my own photography, the objects I select carry symbolic weight—sometimes as private references, sometimes as intuitive flashes that emerge in the act of making. Song lyrics weave through the pieces as emotional narrators, giving voice to feelings I could not speak aloud.

Together, these elements create a rhythm between image and text, like a heartbeat that carries the tension, longing, and release of intimacy and grief.

M. Ward asked in Chinese Translation, “What do you do with the pieces of a broken heart?” My answer is this: I gather them, arrange them, and give them form, letting the fragments become something whole.

OPENING 09.20.25 | 7pm-10pm

Burnt Canoe Studio 4820 Banks Street, New Orleans, LA