INVISIBLE TIES
collection 2024/2025
Invisible Ties approaches fashion as both language and constraint. Rooted in a couture-inspired visual vocabulary, the collection reflects on the unseen structures that shape women’s lives—expectations, internalised roles, and quiet forms of pressure that persist beneath the surface.
The works unfold in pairs. Each figure appears twice: once as a large, unresolved body in motion, and once as a smaller, finished portrait. The contrast exposes a tension between inner experience and outward appearance, between what is lived and what is presented. Garments become architecture, silhouette becomes burden, and presence is negotiated rather than assumed.
These are not portraits of individuals, but of positions. Figures stand, pause, resist, repeat. They occupy space while being held back by forces that remain largely invisible. The collection does not seek resolution. Instead, it lingers in the moment before release—where awareness begins, and transformation becomes possible.
Invisible Ties is a body of work about what shapes us quietly. The forces we learn to wear. The roles we slip into. The control that feels like choice. These ties are not dramatic. They are elegant. Functional. Familiar. They live in posture, in restraint, in repetition. In what is revealed—and what remains carefully hidden.
Unashamed and Unapologetic
held by invisible structures, unapologetically present
Oil on canvas, 170 × 120 cm,
2024
Available
Hanging by a Tread
what appears finished is sustained by something barely intact
Oil on canvas board, 40 × 30 cm,
2025
Available
Pink is My Limit
the body moves only as far as its permissions allow
Oil on canvas, 170 × 120 cm,
2024
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Rose Tinted Glasses
perception becomes another form of tailoring
Oil on canvas board, 24 × 18 cm,
2025
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Putting Up a Fence
the body learns how to keep its distanc, protection becomes posture
Oil on canvas, 170 × 120 cm,
2024
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(loosing) Connection
between distance and desire, something quietly frays
Oil on canvas board, 24 × 18 cm,
2025
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Numb
emotion folds inward, trained into stillness
Oil on canvas board, 80 × 60 cm,
2025
Available
(loosing) Connection II
between withdrawal and touch, something persists
Oil on canvas board, 24 × 18 cm,
2025
Available
Chained to a Box
a burden disguised as belonging
Oil on canvas, 170 × 120 cm,
2024
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I’m a Darling
softness becomes a role, affection turns into obligation
Oil on canvas board, 40 × 30 cm,
2025
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Still the Same
between presence and perception, a quiet restriction settles
Oil on canvas, 170 × 120 cm,
2024
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Blinded by the Blue
vision is shaped by what we are allowed to know
Oil on canvas, 40 × 50 cm,
2025
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Living in a Box
safety becomes enclosure
Oil on canvas, 140 × 100 cm,
2024
Available
Bulletproof
what is meant to shield, begins to separate
Oil on canvas, 80 × 60 cm,
2024
Available
(only) Judgement
between appearance and worth, something hardens
Oil on canvas, 140 × 100 cm,
2024
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No Glory
presence without permission to shine
Oil on canvas, 40 × 30 cm,
2025
Available
Pushing the Wall of Fear
instinct moves where permission was never given
Oil on canvas, 140 × 100 cm,
2025
Private collection
Some Things are Beter Left Unseen
what cannot be faced is carefully covered
Oil on canvas, 50 × 50 cm,
2024
Available
It’s All Hidden
reduced to what remains
Oil on canvas, 80 × 60 cm,
2025
Available
All Over Again
first edited, then displayed
Oil on canvas, 40 × 30 cm,
2025
Available
I Gave It All Away
devotion leaves a hollow behind
Oil on canvas, 170 × 120 cm,
2025
Available
Confinement
carrying what she was never meant to hold
Oil on canvas, 80 × 60 cm,
2024
Available
Loosening Ties
control loosens into grip
Oil on canvas, 170 × 120 cm,
2024
Available
Desire
the fabric remembers the body
Oil on canvas, 80 × 60 cm,
2025
Available
This series explores the body as a site of authorship, where identity is constructed through exposure, adornment, and emotional risk. Each figure occupies a threshold between concealment and revelation, using dress not as decoration but as language—an assertion of presence, power, and choice
Together, the works propose identity as something worn, shaped, and claimed—fluid yet deliberate. The figures do not ask to be seen; they arrive already defined, holding vulnerability, power, and sincerity in equal measure.
Between Exposure and Grace
vulnerability is not the absence of armor — it is choosing what to reveal
Oil on canvas, 200 × 120 cm,
2024
Available
Adorned Authority
power is worn, not imposed
Oil on canvas, 170 × 120 cm,
2025
Available
No Shame
visibility without apology is its own form of defiance
Oil on canvas, 200 × 120 cm,
2025
Available
The Heart ia a Full
feeling is not a weakness — it is a surplus
Oil on canvas, 200 × 120 cm,
2025
Available
Together with Between Exposure and Grace, Adorned Authority, The Heart Is a Fool, and No Shame, these works expand the series into questions of movement, constraint, and self-definition under pressure.
Where earlier pieces claim presence, these examine motion—running, pausing, disentangling, detaching—as equally intentional acts of authorship.
On the Run, Again
she does not escape, she edits the space behind her
Oil on canvas, 170 × 120 cm,
2025
Available
Entangled
connection tightens into choreography
Oil on canvas, 170 × 120 cm,
2025
Available
Strings (un)Attached
detachment is a practiced elegance
Oil on canvas, 170 × 120 cm,
2025
Available
What began as structure moves toward sensation. What was once held becomes something felt. Invisible Ties traces the slow work of becoming. How a body is shaped by what it is given and how it slowly learns to choose what remains. It does not resolve its tensions, it lets them soften, stretch, and re-form.
