Concept & Background
Flux in Your Brain is an ongoing inquiry into the climate crisis, centering carbon as both a material and a metaphor. This project interrogates how carbon manifests in ecological transformation, human impact, and neocolonial structures that continue to shape the Global South. It poses a critical question: How can art serve as a conduit for amplifying the voices of marginalized communities in global environmental discourse?

The project materializes in participatory soot-based performative drawings, where individuals both from privileged and affected backgrounds leave bodily traces on soot-coated surfaces. These imprints, made through the act of pressing skin against soot-laden paper or glass, become ephemeral marks that are then documented and transformed into permanent visual statements. The soot itself, derived from the combustion of fossil fuels and the destruction of forests, functions as both archive and agent, a testimony to the scars of overconsumption and environmental neglect.

The work is rooted in the intersection of drawing, performance, and technology, continuously exploring carbon as both a tangible medium and a concept. Drawing, in my practice, is a dialogue between nature and technology, an expanded field of inquiry where ephemeral traces become enduring reflections on resilience, erasure, and ecological responsibility.