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I didn’t manage to keep posting daily during the last few days of the residency, and now, going through all the photos, ...
25/08/2026

I didn’t manage to keep posting daily during the last few days of the residency, and now, going through all the photos, those two amazing weeks are coming back to me all over again.
A huge thank you to Hospitalfield for creating such a wonderful space to work, think, experiment, and spend time with people who honestly became one of the best groups I’ve ever had the chance to share this kind of experience with.
Thank you Rahel, Lucy, Emma, Carolyn, and all the other members and volunteers of the Hospitalfield team who made our time there so special. And thank you Mark and Hugo for all the amazing food, which successfully destroyed the results of the six weeks of dieting I had done before coming there. :)
I also feel incredibly lucky that I got to share this residency with such a brilliant group of artists. Getting to know you, your work, your ideas, and spending these two weeks together was genuinely such a pleasure: Leon Clowes , Christo Allegra , Fiona, mathias arrignon 天凯 , Molly , Eleanor Capstick , Aya Nadera Zantout • آية نادرة زنتوت and Aqsa. ❤️
And thank you Aya and Matthias for taking photos 1, 2, 3 and 12.
Photo 5 is from Florence’s wonderful performance, which I was very lucky to experience while I was there.
And somewhere in between all of this, "The Coveration of Eve" moved forward too. I arrived at Hospitalfield thinking about leaving as a choice, what it might mean for a body to refuse the role or image it has been given and choose not to remain. Over the two weeks, that question moved through frames, thresholds and visibility, and eventually led me somewhere I hadn’t quite expected: to what remains after the body has left, and who gets to tell its story.
There is still a lot to follow from here. ❤️

Days 9 and 10 HospitalfieldI went to the sea and looked at the cliffs and the birds, tried to cry.The sea makes me cry, ...
12/08/2026

Days 9 and 10 Hospitalfield
I went to the sea and looked at the cliffs and the birds, tried to cry.
The sea makes me cry, a deep, distant cry that hardly turns into tears and I wanted my tears to mix with the sea.
It didn't work, I couldn't.
Instead I thought about leaving, about not being visible, about leaving the frame.
These two days I worked on visibility and its relationship to the frame. Does leaving the frame mean becoming invisible? What remains when the body leaves?
trace. memory, empty frame, outline, description, narrative?
And does what remains become a story?
Who turns it into a story?
Can a body leave without leaving a story?
Whose story is it?
the body's,
the image's,
the archive,
the one who controls the archive?

10/08/2026

Days 7 and 8
We cooked together, chatted, had dinner in the garden, watched the crows and bats, and worked and worked and worked.
This chapter of Eve project is going really well.

Day 6 at HospitalfieldToday I only worked from 8am to 7pm and it seems that I am slowly getting closer to the language o...
08/08/2026

Day 6 at Hospitalfield
Today I only worked from 8am to 7pm and it seems that I am slowly getting closer to the language of this chapter of Eve's project.
Today I started with the question "What does the body encounter when it tries to leave?"
The edge
The border
The threshold
And "What leaves with the body?"
Its role
Its image
Its limitations
Its borders
Its frame





Day 5 at Hospitalfield.I spent most of today continuing to work on "Refusal to Remain Visible", a chapter of "The Covera...
07/08/2026

Day 5 at Hospitalfield.

I spent most of today continuing to work on "Refusal to Remain Visible", a chapter of "The Coveration of Eve", and following some new questions around the idea of “leaving before leaving”, what happens before the actual act of leaving, and when an exit really begins.
We also visited the chapel that Patrick Allan Fraser built for Elizabeth. They transformed Hospitalfield into the place it became, and later left it to support artists and art education.
There was something strangely fitting about visiting this place today, while spending the rest of the day thinking about leaving, absence, and what remains behind.

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06/08/2026

The 4th day started with a walk by the sea and continued by a house tour, and work and work and work.

There was a stone and he stared at me. I was thinking about waves, bombs and the purple T-shirt I had once when I was ho...
05/08/2026

There was a stone and he stared at me. I was thinking about waves, bombs and the purple T-shirt I had once when I was home. "Sorry mam, can I ask a favor" the stone was a very polite one. "I wanna be seen. Can you help me please?" As I had said it was a very polite stone.

Hospitalfield

This piece is about a moment of stillness, vulnerability, and life held close.Watercolour, ink and mixed media on paper....
16/07/2026

This piece is about a moment of stillness, vulnerability, and life held close.

Watercolour, ink and mixed media on paper.




I usually forget to take pictures of the beautiful places I go to, but I usually don't forget to take some paper and pai...
14/07/2026

I usually forget to take pictures of the beautiful places I go to, but I usually don't forget to take some paper and paints with me.

Silver Sands, Highlands, Scotland
July 2026






Working on small mixed media landscape studies lately.This piece combines watercolour, ink, layered textures, and loose ...
07/05/2026

Working on small mixed media landscape studies lately.
This piece combines watercolour, ink, layered textures, and loose expressive marks to create an imagined landscape somewhere between abstraction and nature.
I also included a few process and framing photos because I always love seeing how artworks evolve from the desk to the wall. 🌿

Which slide is your favourite, the process shots or the framed version?

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