If a branch grows crooked, it needs to be pruned.

I see fallen branches discarded by the trees they once belonged to as fragments of myself, each carrying a sliver of my spirit. These branches, severed by the boundaries of necessity, are rich with memory. Their scars, textures, growth marks, and branching patterns whisper stories of resilience and change. Each branch is singular, a testament to its lived experience, embodying the duality of certainty and uncertainty.

As drawing tools, these branches become extensions of the self, their multi-tipped ends wielding intention and spontaneity. They hold the potential to transform raw expression into something both deliberate and unexpected; a living trace of the hand and the soul that guides them. This project aims to self-navigate and collect branches as spontaneous tools for drawing and painting, serving as a medium that bridges the mind, body gestures, and paper as an indicator.

The accordion-fold publication consists of approximately 20 pages. The chapters are organised into fragments of related memories, depicted through emotions, distortions, and objects rendered in abstract forms and strokes. Through experiments with the materiality of ink and paper, the branches are used in flexible operations, producing various line weights, colours, types, compositions, spaces, and imaginaries.