Beauty in Transience ~ mini

 2024

"Only the ephemeral is of lasting value." — Eugène Ionesce

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This body of work emerged from intimate, reflective moments in nature—sudden recognitions of beauty in the fleeting. These small, tender “aha” moments have reshaped my practice: from tracing the transience of identity through found artefacts, to a deeper meditation on the ephemeral itself—what passes, and what remains.

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The circle has become a recurring motif in my practice since 2020—a form both open and whole. In Circles, an ongoing series, I use the meditative act of hand stitching to map emotion, presence, and inner movement. The works draw inspiration from Rasa—the Indian aesthetic concept of distilled emotional essence. Each piece becomes a vessel for what cannot be spoken, only felt.

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In this newest iteration, Beauty in Transience ~ mini, the works take form in small circular compositions. The stitched gestures are intimate, quiet. The colour black appears as a central ground for the first time—hand-dyed khadi and linen that hold space for darkness, mystery, origin. Black becomes a generative void, a space between dissolution and becoming.

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I think of these works as attempts to stitch light into darkness. To hold a fleeting moment. To preserve not the thing itself, but the emotion it leaves behind. In Japanese, the term mono no aware captures this perfectly—an empathy for things, a sensitivity to impermanence.

In each circle, in each thread, I try to honour that awareness.

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Each stitch becomes a trace of presence.
Each circle, a moment held in stillness.
Each work, a small act of care.