"Some Things to Remember" is a collection of ceramic sculptures and paintings of varying scale, alongside carved wooden elements and small objects marked with gold, with individual pieces coalescing into installations that evoke both architectural fragments and personal archives. The works are characterized by script-like symbols and repetitive patterns that resist clear translation, functioning as an encrypted visual language drawn from daily mark-making. Surfaces shift between matte earthiness and luminous reflection, where bioplastic meets ceramic, and gold leaf accents contemporary materials like tyvek with ancient resonance. Small sculptures nestle in recessed niches like relics, while larger reliefs cascade across walls, referencing Romanian folk traditions and Byzantine aesthetics.
The body of work operates as an evolving memory palace—a material response to displacement and preserving memory across cultural distances. The encryption draws from both an upbringing in communist Romania, where discretion was essential, and resistance to digital culture's demand for transparency. These layered symbols refuse easy interpretation while inviting viewers to bring their own associations. The installations insist on physical presence and patient looking. By refusing hierarchy between elite and vernacular forms, the practice proposes that cultural survival depends on accumulated fragments and continued attention, creating a collaborative archive where meaning emerges through individual interpretation.