The Manganese series originates from the artist’s desire to intertwine her drawing practice with the effects of light. She found inspiration in alabaster windows, once commonly used in ecclesiastical architecture, whose translucency casts a colored glow into interior spaces and creates an ambient atmosphere. To evoke the inner structure of the stone, she drew delicate cypress branches, whose forms resemble manganese dendrites — natural mineral formations that spread across rock surfaces in tree-like patterns. Though they resemble human drawings, their formation is the result of long geological processes. It is as if nature itself had drawn them – rendering the image of a tree on stone – thus reestablishing a connection to alabaster as a material. With a refined sensitivity to rhythm and light, the Manganese series explores the interplay of organic forms, geological time, and the act of drawing.
