The Best Nest

The Best Nest examines the shifting concept of 'home' as it evolves through different phases of life, viewed through the lens of intersectional feminism. Utilizing a range of three-dimensional media, the series explores the interplay between our perceptions of home, our identity, and the search for belonging.

By considering how factors such as gender, culture, and lived experience shape and redefine our understanding of home, the work invites viewers to reflect on its significance as both a personal sanctuary and a site of broader social and cultural dynamics.

Before our existence A nothingness A vast nothingness, waiting to become something The nothing that became Beyond our existence The same? Through this portal The sky The sun The heavens And beyond that? More nothing? Or something? Nothing Everything Life Death Ending Beginning Look through Beyond, nothing Beyond, everything Time passing slowly and quickly, all at once Endless possibilities, marred by a finite reality What have you done? What will you do with all you have left?	To be of this place is to carry weight and wonder. To feel the scorch of our past and the pride of our future. This land is burning and bloom, whitewash and weathered truth, Severance and reconciliation. To be of this place is to remember what’s easier to forget, To hold beauty and harm in the same breath. There is no stillness here—only quiet tension, tender beauty, A unified resistance, and a will to remain. Like a nest tucked deep in a wound, We persist. We are not whole. But we are home	The three wire bands encircling the sculpture symbolize the pursuit of home and the instinct to protect. The carved wood is charred using a technique inspired by shou sugi ban, a traditional Japanese method of preserving wood through fire. Fractured pieces are stitched together with rusted fence wire, emphasizing resilience and repair. A fragment of screen from an old wooden door cradles a bird’s nest, threaded with gold to represent the light and goodness at the heart of home.
My quest for "home" has been rooted in the belief that home should be a soft place to fall when the weight and the chaos of the world becomes too much. An anchor in stormy seas. "We all need such a place- to escape, to heal, to find our peace. A refuge."	Through this work, I explore how home is defined and protected, and how histories—personal and collective—shape our identities over time. The materials in the piece are both personal and universal, symbolizing resilience, loss, and the ongoing quest for place.	This assemblage of found objects—fragments of domestic life—explores resilience, displacement, and the instinct to create shelter in both physical and psychological landscapes. The box, neither fully closed nor entirely open, becomes a metaphor for these tensions—a space between exposure and protection, survival and erasure, vulnerability and resilience.
Threadbare Defences challenges viewers to question the effectiveness of protective emotional and psychological barriers over time. The materials used speak to the barriers that we build around ourselves - protective yet isolating.

The best nest

My quest for "home" has been rooted in the belief that home should be a soft place to fall when the weight and the chaos of the world becomes too much. An anchor in stormy seas. "We all need such a place- to escape, to heal, to find our peace. A refuge."

Through this work, I explore how home is defined and protected, and how histories—personal and collective—shape our identities over time. The materials in the piece are both personal and universal, symbolizing resilience, loss, and the ongoing quest for place.

Threadbare Defences challenges viewers to question the effectiveness of protective emotional and psychological barriers over time. The materials used speak to the barriers that we build around ourselves - protective yet isolating.