Artist Statement
My work emerges from a sustained engagement with tension — between control and rupture, permanence and erosion, presence and absence. I am interested in what remains visible when resolution is refused, and in how meaning accumulates through insistence rather than clarity.
Working primarily with mixed media, my practice draws from processes that resist immediacy. Materials are layered, disrupted, and revisited, allowing surfaces to carry traces of time, pressure, and decision. I do not treat materials as neutral supports, but as active participants that hold memory, vulnerability, and resistance within their structure.
Symbolic elements appear throughout the work, not as narratives to be decoded, but as fragments that echo broader cultural, emotional, and spiritual tensions. These symbols are intentionally unstable. They shift depending on proximity, context, and the viewer’s own experience. The work does not offer answers; it invites sustained looking.
My practice is rooted in the belief that art is not an object of comfort, but a site of confrontation — with the self, with inherited structures, and with the contradictions that shape identity. Rather than seeking coherence, I allow dissonance to remain visible, treating it as an honest reflection of lived experience.
Each body of work functions as a record of persistence. Through repetition, material resistance, and refusal to simplify, the work asserts presence in a landscape increasingly driven by speed, clarity, and consumption. What remains is not an image meant to please, but a surface that insists on being encountered.