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November 20th, 2025: Artist Statement
In my studio, I build up and remove. Paintings develop in layers; I scrape and revise until the image is found rather than planned. Surfaces become records of decisions and concealments. The layers behave like the society: information stacked and edited, histories covered, patterns repeating. You’ll find an organized chaos of thickly applied paint held together by texture, sgraffito and a vocabulary of signs.
Love is the momentum that pushes the world in the present toward the future. Our lives exist in a constant contradiction between agency and powerlessness, care and indifference. In a society where everything feels out of our hands, we are forced to choose between taking action or giving up hope. My paintings ask whether love is strong enough to survive a world that keeps trying to kill it?
Symbols matter because they travel through time without losing clarity. I borrow simple forms that are pre-linguistic. I work with contemporary anxieties, while the symbols anchor the paintings to human memory. An arrow can be direction or force, a flower can be love or mortality. The meaning is unstable, but the presence is steady. I am interested in how something ancient can touch something new and make it readable.
How does our world shape our understanding of who we should be and how we should live our lives? In my images I acknowledge control without surrendering to it, inviting viewers to notice where their seeing comes from, leaving room for hope that is not naive. In the end, the work explores what it means to search for an answer, knowing that it may not exist.