Cairn Lines: Balancing Journeys Series reimagines traditional cairn piles—those hand-stacked stone markers found on migration paths and wilderness trails—as symbols of human movement, adaptation, and memory. Instead of using stones, the artist upcycles discarded or unfinished paintings, cutting and reshaping them into forms that can be balanced and stacked. These painterly stones become layered embodiments of artistic labor, cultural displacement, and the act of finding balance in the continual moments of transition throughout one´s life.

The cairn, historically used to mark paths, graves, or boundaries becomes a metaphor for migration and cultural navigation. The focus on balance represents the continual transition between origins and destinations. The use of discarded materials speaks to resilience and reinvention and the capacity to transform what is discarded into something guiding. Representing stones with paintings merge the act of creation with the act of journeying, implying that identity, like paint, can be layered, weathered, and remade.