In the projected video, I sit on a long sheet of paper and press terracotta clay onto one foot while the other supports it, in repetitive motions. I remain there until the clay dries and takes the impression of my feet.

That paper becomes the installation’s surface, it leans up the wall where video is projected and continues across the floor where the abstractions of the action remain visible as clay traces.

Living with multiple sclerosis, I understand the body as negotiation and resilience; Here, I express the limited mobility and weight I was feeling due to MS, and place that embodied sensation in proximity to the displaced body that cannot move freely.

Terracotta clay binds body and soil; Each wedging and pressing of the clay on the body alters the surface, weight, balance, and the self. The traces on the paper marks labor and persistence, remembering where pressure or release occurred. The monochrome projection strips away color, echoing how systems often flatten bodies marked by illness or by displacement.

By projecting onto the very paper that caught the residue, the work plays with time and memory, the floor holds what happened, the wall replays it, the cast persists. Together they ask how displaced/disabled bodies carry land, how land carries bodies, and how marks become testimony after erasure or departure.