In the image titled Inherited Movements II, my grandmother appears while cooking. Her figure is surrounded by pots standing near the stove and the simple objects of everyday labor. Her inward-focused posture and the movements of her hands preserve the memory of actions performed countless times and known with precision.
I spent the summers of my childhood in my grandmother’s village, where I early on experienced a deep, instinctive connection to nature. The daily lives of the local people were closely tied to the cycles of the natural world. Cultivating the vegetable garden, tending to the animals, preparing meals, and performing physical chores around the house were all natural, integral parts of life.
The movements my grandmother made while cooking embody experience accumulated over generations—a form of everyday knowledge passed down among women not through written recipes, but through observation, participation, and repetition. It was in these quiet, often unnoticed actions that the act of caretaking became visible.
In the Collective Heritage series, I link my personal memories with motifs of a shared rural way of life. The image serves as both a family memory and a tribute to the everyday labor of women, to caretaking, and to knowledge passed down through generations.
Alongside the bold, detailed lines of the ink, the pots—painted in guache—appear as more solid, tactile forms. The large expanse of blank paper highlights the figure of the grandmother and a few characteristic cooking utensils, as if memory had preserved only the most essential details.
The work is an original, unique piece, signed and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
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