Hair grows as long as trees

a word

a word for a thought

a thought for a memory

a memory for a scent

a scent for a photograph

a photograph for the place l

antern jacket leaves

pearls pearls necklace

a run in tights nylon

a note in the phone

untouchable untouchable

I pull I pull I pull I pull

pulling pulling to pull it out

I can't I can't

What metaphors and social scripts shape how we understand and deal with emotions? How do we mark a breakup through gestures and rituals?

Hair grows as long as trees began as a series of ceramic object-tools that lose their intended function. At the center of the observation is the impossibility of separating lived experience from the body. Among the objects are scissors, which the artist uses as a metaphor following a painful breakup, referring to a familiar social ritual: hair can be cut, but lived experience cannot be removed through the same gesture.

Moving across different media, the artist reflects on the body as a form that can no longer retum to its earlier shape. This gives rise to the formation of another kind of wholeness - one that includes the experience of damage.

The space unfolds through different stages of a painful experience: from melancholy, through encounters with established ideas of how breakups are experienced, toward acceptance and recovery. Accompanied by poetic, diary-like notes, the artist offers a small joumey into one's own vulnerability. She opens a dialogue with the narratives that shape how we understand emotions, draws on folkloric imagery, and creates a space for observing the duration of inner processes and their gradual transformation.