PERSONAL PALIMPSEST - A NARRATIVE OF PRACTICE ​
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Some people live according to a set rhythm... I seem to have spent mine patiently stitching with an endless thread of faith, beauty and meaning.
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Am I a designer? A strategic thinker? A storyteller? A builder of things? A problem solver? Fortunately, titles tend to slide right off. I'm on the lookout for visual, experiential, and relational cues… trying to be ​“fully alive” - as per the adage by St. Irenaeus. ​
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Home is somewhere between Barcelona and Amman, though the paperwork insists on being more specific. I have lived in China, Spain, Germany, and Jordan, collecting memories as marginal sketches—half-finished, interconnected, and endlessly fascinating to flip through.
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I've explored multiple roads:
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Architecture promised the ability to create spaces that made people feel. My intent was never to merely shape walls; but to envelop the mind and heart of those traversing within. A space is never just a space—it is a two-way exchange, a whisper, a suggestion. It can expand thought or shrink it, lift the spirit or quietly press it down. Aesthetics are not merely decoration; but a declaration of order and Truth. ​
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Cultural Management suggested that even transient spaces - once designed - needed organizing to be fully experienced.
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Art Psychotherapy proposed how memories and spatial blueprints remain profoundly human, relational and beautifully untidy.​​​​​​​​​
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I have been moved by the arts, the literary, and the scientific with equal fervor. The world oscillates between rigidity and ephemeral, and I have found myself drawn to both—the order in numbers and the poetry of experience, the solidity of buildings and the intangibility of human connection. I have researched concepts, designed spaces, and facilitated encounters.
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But if spaces could frame our emotions, what about those left unframed—the ones we carry within us? How does one engage with other moments, those fleeting ones that refuse to be pinned down? How does one take in all the catalysts—the sights, the silences, the forgotten corners of a city, the weight of a word just spoken, the friction of pencil on recycled paper, the mental landscape of the past?​
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​BA Architecture
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​MA Arts & Cultural Management - Spain
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​MA Art Psychotherapy - Spain​​
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Fluent: English / Spanish / Arabic
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Intermediate: German / French
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AREAS OF INTEREST
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You can find me at the intersection of past stories, art and life... of Catholic theology and its relation to sacred art, iconography and worship, history, auction/curatorial collections, the ​“minor arts", urban spaces and heritage sites, learning and the creative process - while pursuing an understanding of Truth and goodness.
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COLLABORATIVE GOALS, EXCHANGES & INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICES
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Consulting projects for the creative and cultural industries (CCIs)
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Cultural Research / Interpretation of places
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Content & Collection Creation / Curation
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Integration of Therapeutic arts, creativity & wellbeing in museums (multi-sensory approach)
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Faith-based therapeutic art sessions for women & creatives (online / 1:1)
I'm a multi-disciplinary, contemplative, and perpetually curious communicator. A traveler through countries and ideas. A curator of things that cannot always be touched.
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I have worn many hats , each offering a different way to interpret the world. From translating raw data into meaning - much like a guide whispering to a reader - to identifying with a visitor within a space, sensing how its form invites thought and movement. Walking the experience myself, allowing a book to become a street and a city to become a story. Observing encounters between created art and the person standing before it, between the emotion and its unfolding.