ARTIST STATEMENT

My work explores the tension between change, memory, and the interplay between what is seen and what is felt. Working primarily in figurative painting and drawing, alongside collage and printmaking, I use the human form as a site where memory, time, and transformation emerge, often carrying allegorical weight beyond individual identity.

Material process is central to this exploration. Through the buildup and removal of paint, earlier stages remain visible, allowing the surface to function as a record of revision, erosion, and pressure. Scraping, sanding, and exposing seams shifts the painting from an illusionistic image to a physical object, where presence and absence coexist.

Nostalgic imagery operates as a point of entry rather than sentiment, offering shared recognition before scenes fragment and destabilize. Figures hover between solidity and dissolution, past and present, revealing memory as something unstable and continually reassembled. Influenced by ancient frescoes, Fayum portraits, and contemporary figurative painters, my work embraces imperfection, incompleteness, and transformation as essential to how images—and identities—are formed.