Hatched

Hatched explores the symbolic weight of the egg in fifteenth and sixteenth century art, where it often represented creation, purity, and the fragile boundary between the sacred and the profane. Drawing on this duality, each piece begins with a hollowed eggshell, a delicate form, blown out by hand, onto which my collages are image-transferred. The imagery is inspired by the hybrid creatures found within religious paintings of the fifteenth and sixteenth century , where divine and earthly forms merge in strange harmony. Within these fragile shells, life and corruption coexist; beauty is born, already trembling on the edge of decay.