"For a while, I’ve been developing a body of work around the Dodo, where grief is explored as a spectral presence. Rather than treating the Dodo as a symbol of extinction or loss, I approach it as an unsettled, unclassified, and unquiet entity. So far, I’ve explored this through interactive interfaces, sonic landscapes, and pseudo-historical texts. Now, I’m turning to the visual: how does one draw an extinct being without defaulting to taxonomies that reduced it to a specimen?

So far, I’ve explored this through interactive interfaces, pseudo-historical texts, and sonic landscapes. My current focus is on developing a visual vocabulary that could later give form to the Dodo—not through taxonomy or circulated biological images, but through a plasmic visual language rooted in the living. For this, I’ve been drawing existing birds—such as Victorian Pigeons, Emus, and Nicobar Pigeons—in fluid states of movement: incubating, grooming, mating. These forms are often dissolving into their environments or in movement. Through this process, I ask: can the Dodo be mourned through the rituals of its living cousins? Can the Dodo be reconstituted not biologically, but through gestures, kinship, and atmospheric residue?"