X-RAY is a body of work that reimagines the human form through a layered process combining traditional materials and digital intervention. Each piece is created on A4 paper using a deliberate sequence of mediums, each chosen for its material, conceptual, and aesthetic qualities.

The process begins with staining the paper using tea, applied in the shape of a body part. Tea serves as a natural, unpredictable medium, its organic qualities evoke skin tones, bodily fluids, and the passage of time through its aging effect. The stains act as both figure and ground, grounding the work in a sense of the corporeal and the ephemeral.

Over this base, the skeletal structure is hand-drawn using biro (ballpoint pen). The biro allows for precise, layered mark-making, echoing the linear clarity of medical diagrams and anatomical sketches. Its everyday, utilitarian nature contrasts with the subject matter, bringing a raw, almost clinical quality to the drawings. Using reverse lighting techniques, the skeletons are rendered as if lit from behind, an intuitive method to suggest transparency and inner structure.

Finally, the drawings are digitally inverted, transforming the warm, sepia-toned works into stark, glowing blue images reminiscent of X-rays and MRI scans. This final step bridges the hand-drawn and the technological, referencing diagnostic imaging while also abstracting the body into something ghostly and unfamiliar.

Through the careful choice and layering of these mediums, X-RAY becomes a meditation on the tension between inner and outer, natural and artificial, intimate and clinical. The series invites viewers to look beneath the surface, both literally and metaphorically.