BRIEF STATEMENT
My paintings stage everyday objects and partial figures in charged, fragmented spaces. Geometric shapes transform into lamps, lighters, screens, and elements that repeat and shapeshift across works, becoming symbolic through repetition. Inspired by quilts and zines, each piece behaves like a splintered story—gesturing towards incoherence. Domestic and technological forms carry psychic weight in my work, suggesting a narrative that never fully materializes. The atmosphere is shaped by the disjointed way we are asked to experience the present: mediated, attention scattered, and searching for authenticity.
FULL STATEMENT
My work depicts stage-like settings where objects hold psychic density and figures flicker in and out of view. A lamp leans, a shoe emerges, a face is transfixed. These forms carry traces of the body—not as portraits, but substitutes. Structural components of the work are informed by quilting patterns and artists’ zines, both of which I collect and have experience creating. Each piece behaves like a scene or torn page from a comic—one with its logic scrambled. The compositions hint at narrative, but never settle into one.
I work with a recurring and expansive visual vocabulary: hands, speakers, birds, lighters, screens, spheres. These forms loop and mutate from painting to painting, becoming symbolic through repetition–a circle reincarnates as a watch, nipple or webcam. I use flat, graphic color fields and abrupt shifts in perspective to press emotional content into geometric space. Each element adds to the mood and takes on new meaning through proximity with other forms. The paintings are tightly composed, but psychologically open. Plurality over singularity.
This work reflects the disjointed way we process experience now—online, mediated, spatially disoriented. I’m interested in how domestic and technological objects can hold emotional charge—how a desk lamp or a USB cord can start to feel intimate, alien, or watched. The work is part of an ongoing conversation with artists who use the language of still life or figuration to speak about interiority. My work can be read like a system trying to hold itself together, or a diagram of a fractured moment.