Hxoro originates from a discovery that unexpectedly shaped my artistic trajectory: a worn copy of Psychology by Peter Green (first edition, 1999, p. 445), which I found abandoned on a roadside in Bushwick during a rainy day in the 2020 lockdowns. In it, I read about the moment — just after their first year of life — when children begin to offer objects to others as a way of testing reactions, initiating contact, and creating a shared language even with strangers.

That small anthropological detail became the conceptual seed of my practice. Hxoro embodies that same impulse: a desire to move the emotional undercurrents that people carry but rarely articulate. My installations and visual works function as an invitation, sometimes clandestine gesture that seek to awaken dormant states of attention, curiosity, and vulnerability. In each piece, I attempt to revive that early, instinctive act of reaching out, proposing a moment of connection through the fragile, intuitive language of art.