Artist Belief Statement

At the heart of my work is the belief that memory is not fixed—it’s mutable, emotional, and often contradictory. I approach painting and collaging as acts of presence, prioritizing the process over polish and honoring the material's raw truth. Through abstraction, I seek to communicate intimacy and internal landscapes, using texture, gesture, and layering to evoke what can’t be spoken.

Material contradiction is central to my practice—pairing coarseness with fragility, the found with the painted, the resolved with the unresolved. I see these tensions as emotional truths. Care is a radical act in my studio: it manifests in the choice to slow down, to tend to overlooked surfaces, to give space to what is quiet or incomplete. I embrace the unfinished not as absence, but as potential—a space where the viewer enters, completes, or questions the work on their own terms.