Fragmented Familiar Series

 

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Fragmented Familiar is an ongoing body of work that explores how recognizable forms can be dismantled, reorganized, and transformed into something unfamiliar. Beginning with observational drawings of botanical and anatomical structures, I fragment and reconstruct their forms through drawing, collage, and digital intervention.

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Leaves begin to resemble organs, roots suggest nervous systems, and botanical structures develop into ambiguous, organism-like forms. Rather than seeking a fixed identity, these fragments remain open to recombination—shifting through repetition, mirroring, displacement, and changes in scale.

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The series considers recognition as unstable: how little of a familiar form is needed before we identify it, and what happens when that recognition begins to break down. Existing somewhere between observation and invention, the resulting structures remain partially recognizable while resisting complete classification.

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Fragmented Familiar treats form not as a finished state, but as something provisional—capable of being taken apart, reassembled, and becoming something else.