Artist Statement
My work navigates the tension between abstraction and figuration, weaving together organic, visceral, and surreal elements into richly layered compositions. At its core, my practice is an investigation of transformation—both physical and psychological—where the boundaries between the human, the botanical, and the fantastical dissolve into hybrid forms. I explore contrasts in beauty and decay, structure and entropy, the recognizable and the ambiguous, creating a dynamic interplay that resists fixed meaning and invites sustained contemplation.
The natural world plays a central role in my visual language, serving as both a source of inspiration and metaphor. Growing up with the intimate experience of planting and tending to banana plants, I became attuned to the cyclical nature of life—growth, decay, regeneration—and the fragile systems that sustain it. These early observations continue to shape my understanding of materiality, time, and transformation. In my paintings, twisted, fleshy, root-like forms and sinewy brushwork echo the growth patterns of plants and bodily tissue, blurring distinctions between animate and inanimate, self and environment.
I am particularly interested in how bodies—human, vegetal, or imagined—can be sites of metamorphosis. My surfaces are built through layers of acrylic paint, manipulated with sweeping gestures, delicate linework, and textural contrasts. The marks I make embody both violence and care, echoing natural processes such as blooming, decomposition, or erosion. Through this tactile and intuitive process, I aim to create immersive visual fields that pulse with internal logic and suggest a sense of motion or transformation in real time. While my imagery may appear abstract, it is grounded in an embodied engagement with the figure—limbs, organs, and faces surface and dissolve, appearing just long enough to destabilize the viewer’s sense of perception. I’m fascinated by how the mind organizes chaos into meaning, and how ambiguity opens a space for projection, reflection, and emotional resonance.
Ultimately, my work seeks to visualize a world in transition—a space where collapse and regeneration coexist, and where contradiction becomes a site of possibility. Through a painterly vocabulary that embraces fluidity, I aim to reflect a world that is unstable, resilient, and continuously evolving—inviting viewers into a deeper awareness of our interconnectedness with nature, time, and transformation.
