Practice Map July 2026

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Practice Map, July 2026 

 I have been trying to see the shape of my own practice more clearly. This map is not a complete catalogue, and it is not a timeline in the usual sense. It is a selective atlas of branches, roots and cross-connections. 

It shows how projects that once felt separate have grown from the same deeper concerns: inherited memory, displacement, identity, witness, repair, sacred images, ordinary lives, and the expanded field of printmaking. Looking at it flattened into a single image is oddly clarifying. Personal Maps, Recovered Histories, Foreign Saints, Istanbul, Vessels, Traces, and the newer archive work are not isolated projects. They are conversations with each other. Some lines are direct. Others are quieter, more subterranean. The roots are still family history, migration, Orthodox upbringing, place, archive, belonging, and reconciliation. 

The archive is not just storage. It is a living source. Website pages, posts, objects, documents, catalogues, evidence sets, references and fragments all feed the work. I think this is why the map matters to me. It does not explain the work away. It lets me see the practice as an ecology rather than a list of achievements. 

A way of making as remembering, and remembering as responsibility.

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