Royal Free smoking area (smoking prohibited)

wood,hospital curtains,handmade books

The work explores the hospital as a liminal non-place, examining how the disabled body is shaped through its interaction with institutional systems. Drawing on non-clinical spaces-corridors, waiting rooms, thresholds – visual elements are dissected and reconfigured through collage and print. These fragments shift attention away from sites of treatment toward the overlooked environments that quietly structure experience.

By abstracting these spaces, the work considers how institutions extend beyond care, becoming environments that influence how bodies are felt, seen, and managed. The handmade books act as intimate records, holding personal encounters with these transitional spaces.

The wooden structure, paired with a hospital curtain, evokes both division and exposure. It suggests a boundary that is at once protective and permeable, echoing the tension between privacy and surveillance within institutional care. Through material and form, the work reflects on vulnerability, control, and the subtle ways space mediates bodily experience.