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We work with paper that has lived before: earlier paintings, studies, sketches, and studio fragments that were set aside. Rather than beginning on a blank surface, we begin with residue. This choice is ecological and ethical. We believe that what has been discarded still holds potential, and that transformation begins when someone decides to look again.

Each work moves through many states. The paper is torn, washed, inked, monotyped, painted, embroidered, stitched by machine and by hand, and reworked. Mistakes are not erased. A skipped stitch, a torn edge, a stain, become part of the vocabulary. The surface records decisions, hesitations, and passages. In this way, the material itself becomes a record of becoming.

The series takes its structure from Rudolf Steiner's twelve virtues and from Aristotle's ethics. We are interested in virtue as a living process, not a fixed rule. Each virtue is a state that, when genuinely inhabited, unfolds into another.

Steiner's virtues move in pairs: devotion into sacrifice, equilibrium into progress, perseverance into faithfulness, unselfishness into catharsis, compassion into freedom, courtesy into tactfulness, contentment into serenity, patience into insight, control of thought and speech into truth, courage into redemption, discretion into meditation, magnanimity into love. This movement from inner state to outward action is the heartbeat of the work.

Our collaboration is central to this idea. We do not divide tasks. Both of us tear, ink, monotype, paint, sew, and layer the same sheet. What one begins, the other continues or contradicts. The work is born in dialogue, in disagreement, in reconciliation. The I becomes we not by losing identity, but by finding it in relation.

We would like to present this project where the twelve virtues and their transformations could unfold through art practices in dialogue with the space and its community.

We hope they offer the viewer a space to recognize their own transformations.