Transforming the Ordinary
Everyday objects often carry unnoticed potential.
In this section, I transform familiar materials into singular, handcrafted works that exist beyond their original function. Through texture, natural elements, and symbolic intervention, things become personal artefacts — objects that carry memory, process, and a different way of seeing.
Title: Roots of Creation
Direction: Before the Worlds / Visual Thinking
Medium: Sketchbook, wax pencil, acrylic markers, natural materials, Atlantic Ocean sand, glue, varnish
Dimensions: 21 × 29.7 cm | 8.3 × 11.7 in
Year: 2025
About Artwork:
This sketchbook was transformed before a single drawing was made inside it. Rather than remaining a blank object waiting to be filled, it became the first artwork in the creative process.
The cover began with the image of roots, but gradually evolved into something closer to the flow of a river. Observing the moving water, I realised that creation does not grow from fixed origins alone — it also follows movement, intuition, and constant transformation. Natural materials collected along the Atlantic coast became part of the surface, turning the sketchbook into a record of place as much as a tool for future ideas.
This work marks an early stage in my exploration of how ordinary objects can become carriers of meaning. Long before my current practice of Naive Symbolism and Emotional Cartography fully emerged, I was already searching for ways to transform everyday materials into personal visual worlds. The sketchbook became not simply a place for drawings, but a symbolic beginning — a reminder that creativity often starts before the first line is ever drawn.
