I consider myself an independent visual artist whose practice is primarily focused on painting. Painting is both a way of thinking and a means of exploring my existence and my relationship with the world.
My work brings together different subjects, ideas, and techniques in an ongoing exploration of human experience. Although my artistic interests have shifted throughout my career, a common thread connects them: an enduring fascination with humanity, its evolution, and its place within the larger complexity of existence.
I am intrigued by our capacity to observe, understand, manipulate, and transform the world around us. From political and cultural systems to genetic modification and atomic physics, humanity continuously attempts to reshape its surroundings. These ambitions reveal both our creative potential and our inherent contradictions. I see art as another expression of this distinctly human impulse—the fact that image-making predates written language suggests how deeply the need to visualize and interpret our experience is embedded in human nature.
I use painting as a language to process, question, and translate what intrigues, challenges, or concerns me. However, painting is not simply the execution of predetermined ideas. I allow the process itself to influence my thinking, following unexpected directions suggested by the interaction of materials, gestures, and forms. The act of painting becomes a dialogue between intention and intuition, control and surrender.
My practice has moved through explorations of political figures, human anatomy, metamorphosis, and organic forms inspired by biological processes and the microscopic world. These references are not intended as literal representations, but rather as points of departure for exploring transformation, interconnectedness, and the possibilities of creation.
In my recent work, I cut into and rearrange previously completed paintings. Interested in humanity’s ability to break down and recombine existing structures, I approach the canvas in a similar spirit. By disrupting an established composition, I relinquish attachment to the original image and allow new relationships to emerge beyond my initial intentions. The act of fragmentation becomes an act of creation, turning what was once finished into material for a new beginning.
Ultimately, painting is an ongoing process of discovery rather than the illustration of a fixed idea. It is a way of questioning what exists, exploring what might emerge, and considering our relationship with the forces that shape the world. My work moves between the human and the universal, between the desire to understand and the acceptance of what remains unknown.