The Flesh is a visual diary of returning to the body. These paintings emerge from a period of rupture and re-embodiment - an attempt to feel my way back into skin through colour, gesture, and sensation. 

Inspired by the notion  of 'flesh' articulated by Maurice Merleau-Ponty - the shimmering seam where sensation and meaning intertwine - these works attempt to paint the body from the inside out. Rather than representing the body as passive matter, the series explores the body as a field of perception, vulnerability, and fluctuation. Drawing on feminist phenomenology, which understands the self as fundamentally embodied and situated in the world, the work attends to interior, first-person experience, approaching painting as a mode of embodied reflection.

The series became a site of formal experimentation as much as philosophical inquiry. Working across varying scales - from intimate studies that demand close proximity to larger works that ask the body to orient itself before them - and moving between painterly gesture and graphic precision, oil, acrylic, pastel and watercolour, the works register the instability of embodied experience in their own surfaces. No single scale or medium could contain what the body asked to express.

In The Flesh, pigment becomes pulse. Colour carries feeling in its most immediate form. Each painting is a fragment of embodied life - desire, fever, stillness, insomnia - where the existential task of becoming oneself unfolds through the body. The works operate as both philosophical inquiry and intimate record: scars coaxed into sunrise, the body reclaimed as both wound and wonder.