Artist Statement
My work seeks out heterotopias, the slippages between presence and absence, public and private, past and potential. These are spaces where the real blends, where history echoes through reflective glass, and where memory clings to crumbling walls. I do not recreate these places, I reflect them, inhabit them, and gently unmake them, brushstroke by brushstroke.
To paint is to arrest time, to capture a moment that lingers in memory by transforming it thoughtfully on canvas.
It is to filter the world through subjectivity, questioning what is real, what is remembered, and what is felt. Each work is not merely an echo but a reconstruction: a trace of both place and painter.
The practice begins with photography and observation, but it quickly evolves into a more internal process of reflection, emotion, and construction. Architecture, memory, and the spaces in-between curates the work. Drawing from scenes that reflect something deeper, whether it’s the quiet tension of a reflective storefront or the intimate stillness of an interior.
These images are not just representations; they are fragments of lived experience, reinterpreted through my lens. Each painting is both a document and a re-imagining, where perception and reality blur, and the familiar becomes subtly unfamiliar.
My work explores how we inhabit place, and how place, in turn, inhabits us.
