Museum Anatomy

When a painting goes missing from a museum, it’s seen as a crime — a loss not just of art, but of history. My work seeks to reimagine and restore these absences by creating new pieces inspired by lost, stolen, or damaged art. Museum Anatomy is my response to these fragments of erased history.

While I aim to create beauty, my work is often described as confusing, funny, grotesque, or shocking — sometimes all at once. These responses reflect the tangled nature of lost stories, distortions, and memory fragments I explore.

Inspiration comes from many places: murals in Thai caves eroding from climate change, censored works hidden in Czech catacombs, and colonial art that documented lives before enslavement. One of my reimaginings even led to the rediscovery of a painting stolen during WWII.

In Museum Anatomy: The German Works, I collaborated with a curator from the Friedrich Danniell Museum in Germany. Together, we reflected on the parallels between today's politics and those of the Weimar Republic, using a box of index cards — each representing a Nazi-stolen painting — as the foundation. I reinterpreted these missing works through contemporary human forms, bridging past and present.

My work is that of a seeker. I weave a tapestry of human history — one that includes you. It’s a survey of stories lost, forgotten, destroyed, and reimagined — and above all, remembered.