Whorl, 2025
22.5cm x 36cm
Glass beads, thread

After giving birth and in the first year of her child’s life, the whorl became a recurring visual motif in Camille’s experience of new life. The form appeared in her child’s hair and fingerprints, as well as in natural patterns such as shells, atmospheric formations and the way people spoke.

The whorl also became a symbol of the psyche, as a way of describing how thoughts and feelings gather around something that remains difficult to know fully—in this case, the reality of her child. In late 2024, Camille and her family experienced Typhoon Kong-Rey while in Taiwan. This event brought the motif into sharper focus, as internal and external landscapes seemed to converge.

The work Whorl includes the geographic coordinates of the location where they encountered the typhoon, along with a mathematical equation for a whorl.

Portal, 2025
22cm x 36cm
Glass beads, thread

Portal considers the kinds of structures that may help us move through suffering. After giving birth in 2024, Camille went through a period of significant mental distress. During this time, she exchanged a series of text messages with her analyst. These messages became temporary portals made through language, offering moments of relief from psychic pain. A phrase from these exchanges has been beaded into the work.

Indefinite Pitch, 2025
22cm, x 36cm
Glass beads, threads

Indefinite Pitch refers to the ways art and music can convey experiences that are difficult to put into words. After the birth of her child, Camille came into contact with a sense of pure, real life — a raw feeling usually veiled by the structures of the everyday. This experience resonated with Krzysztof Penderecki’s Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, in which graphic notation was used to direct the orchestra toward sounds beyond conventional Western musical notation. For Camille, this offered a way of thinking about feelings that cannot be expressed through ordinary forms of communication. A fragment of Penderecki’s score has been beaded into the work.