Kate Banazi

Says Kate Banazi of this work: "With a nod to packing, moving, and the protection of precious things, I sought to use everyday items like the honeycomb paper — a not only for their humble practical associations but also for their utilitarian aesthetic.

"These often-overlooked materials carry with them the residue of transit, fragility, and containment: paper that cushions, clips that hold order, litter that absorbs and hides. Together, they formed a veil, obscuring a view with its stretched and pulled fissures, suggesting to me corrupted maps glimpsed through leafy canopies. Fragile spaces, fractured but connected, emerged, revealing the tension between protection and revelation — more like a skin barrier, porous and impermanent — recalling the body with its scars, membranes, and fragile architecture; memories of fragmented family histories told in pieces, stained by rupture in the folds of memory."