Life Inflamed

Life Inflamed emerged during a period of chronic pain following a diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis. Large-scale drawing became both adaptation and necessity. Unable to work physically in the ways I had before, I began making marks with my left hand, allowing the limitations of mobility, strength, and endurance to determine the forms themselves.

The drawings developed through repetition, hesitation, and physical constraint. Simple shapes accumulated without fixed meaning, directed less by intention than by what the body would allow on a given day. At the same time, an interest in sculpture remained present but inaccessible, leading certain forms—cups, vessels, contained volumes—to appear repeatedly within the work as drawn approximations of objects I could not physically make.

Installed within the frescoed interiors of Villa Bottini, the work existed in direct contrast to its surroundings. Flat ink drawings suspended on wire occupied rooms layered with sfumato walls, ornament, and historical weight. The temporary, restrained quality of the forms stood against the permanence and illusionism of the architecture, emphasizing fragility, scale, and the physical reality from which the drawings emerged.