Both regions, radically different in their appearance but deeply related in their reduction, opened up new contemplative spaces of experience for the artist. In the midst of these elemental topographies, she encountered a quality of silence in which time, matter, and spirit are rearranged. The resulting new series of works, Objects of Essence, does not reflect this experience in a representational way, but embodies it in form and substance. The works negotiates the polarities of cold and heat, light and emptiness. This series of works understands the primordial not as a reference, but as a living substance; it renegotiates permanence, change, and cultural continuity.