Transmogrification (2021)

This work began with a memory that has stayed with me since school. A story from Norse mythology where the blind god Höd, deceived by Loki, kills his beloved brother Baldr. Their mother, Frigg, had asked everything in the land to be kind to Baldr. Stones, fire, metal, wood, all promised they would never harm him. But she forgot to ask the mistletoe. And it was from mistletoe that Loki shaped the weapon.

That story sat with me. It speaks to the quiet power of the things we overlook, and how harm can come from what seems small or harmless.

In Transmogrification, I have taken objects that can wound and changed their nature. An arrow became sawdust. Scissors were bound with rubber bands. A cactus floats in jelly. A syringe is wrapped in wool. A blade is melted by flame. Each piece is a gesture—a softening, a reimagining. A way to ask: what if the things that threaten us could be transformed? What if harm could be made gentle?