A place to be is a series born from the desire to inhabit, to find or recognize a territory in which to be, to remain, to return, or simply to imagine. More than a physical location, the works propose a symbolic space: an interior destination revealed in the very act of staying, pausing, observing. The artist’s material practice reinforces this notion of rootedness. In each piece, line, fabric, and form act as sensitive coordinates. The line, far from emerging as a spontaneous gesture, becomes conscious, measured even meditative. The forms do not float: they occupy a specific, chosen place. The fabric is sometimes pre-worked, textured before being pictorially intervened upon, in a process that gives the surface body and memory. This attention to

detail reveals a complex freedom: one that does not need to be justified, but affirmed through the beauty of its very existence.