The "Factory Nail Salon" series explores my blue-collar upbringing, drawing aesthetic and metaphorical connection between my father's factory work and my mother's small home nail salon, and highlighting shared utilitarian beauty and socioeconomic realities of middle-class life.
This series focuses on experimenting and creating with the emerging and petrochemical-free material of seaweed-based Agar Agar Bioplastics in new artwork.
The ‘Hyper-Local HMA’ (Heavy Material Acquisition) concept was born from ideations on how to achieve unique concrete object designs without committing the near absolute-sin of shipping these items across large distances to the end-user.
