"Holding On" is a new series of mixed-media works exploring the themes of fragmentation and the use of fasteners to hold visual elements together. With the  aid of staples, wire, bolts, and rope, these broken works are vulnerable, but have an imperfect beauty that impart character and uniqueness.

In ancient times artisans used to save pottery by stapling the broken pieces together with rivets (a craft known as Ju Ci in China and Kintsugi in Japan). I thought of this mending as a perfect metaphor to depict entropy (a concept most commonly associated with a state of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty). In our youth our lives are geared towards accumulating, building and expending. As we we age, we start to loose relationships, slow down and try to hold on to what we have. In many ways, these works are an abstract reminder of what it means to be a human being - all of us have physical imperfections and emotional scars that makes us who we are. Part of aging is trying to hold on to what we know, love and cherish as long as we can.