“Northern Dawn” (2025) is an MFA thesis exhibition that explores memory, migration, and the fragmentation of personal history through archival photographs, traditional sculptural forms, and image-based installations. Drawing from a collection of photographs taken by the artist’s grandmother during a return visit to Norway in the 1960s, the exhibition examines how familial narratives intersect with broader questions of identity, landscape, and cultural myths. Through processes of printing, embedding, tearing, and layering, the work challenges the pace of contemporary image consumption, inviting viewers into a space of slowed reflection and tactile engagement. Northern Dawn combines synthetic materials and intimate imagery, reinterpreting traditional Scandinavian craft objects—such as mangleboards and weathervanes—in contemporary forms. Through the integration of collage, fabric, and embedded photographic imagery, wall-mounted works engage in a poetic dialogue around myth, heritage, and ancestral memory.
Alternate view of “Northern Dawn”Installation of (left to right) “a window, a field, a valley”, “pinch, dream”, and “pattern recognize”, 2025“a window, a field, a valley”, inkjet, stitched synthetic canvas, mesh, acrylic sheet, hardware, 2025“pinch, dream”, inkjet, stitched sythetic canvas, mesh, acrylic sheet, hardware, 2025“pattern recognize”, inkjet, wood panel, diffusion sheets, graphite, mesh, acrylic sheet, hardware, aluminum, 2025Installation of “Mangle (Double)”, 2025Installation view of “Northern Dawn”, 2025Installion of “Northern Dawn”, 2025“net”, dyed resin, panel, inkjet, stitched canvas, hardware, 2025“island”, dyed resin, panel, inkjet, stitched cavnas, hardware, 2025 “Weather Vane (Rabbit)”, 3D printed PLA, enamel