The talismanic carriers emerge from a practice of collecting and arranging natural bibelots, small fragments of the everyday that become imbued with symbolic charge. Within this framework, the talisman operates as both vessel and mediator, a site in which objects, narratives, and energies are bound together.

The works develop through an intimate engagement with place and material, where the act of collection is not neutral but inherently ideological. Each assemblage embodies an elemental narrative, situating natural matter as both artifact and ingredient in an unfolding ritual.

Materiality is central to the practice: lanolin from sheep’s wool, an ancient balm, gestures towards care and healing, while its scent invokes interspecies intimacy. Horsehair, gathered during grooming, resonates with mythological associations of the animal and the folkloric traditions of love and binding charms. These materials oscillate between power and fragility, historically understood as vessels for vitality and spiritual essence.

Similarly, organic remnants tea pulp, dried herbs, fruit skins, seeds become carriers of transformation. Once consumed for nourishment, their remains are transfigured into talismanic substance, extending their agency beyond the body into symbolic ritual.

The talismans, as presented within the BFA collection, resist stasis. They remain active, evolving within the environments they inhabit and shifting the atmospheres they encounter. Whether placed in domestic space or within the exhibition context, they function less as static sculpture than as activated presences ritual objects whose meaning lies in process, invocation, and the living relationship between material and site.