Description

My work explores the alchemy of being perfectly imperfect.  Where beauty and grit coexist, and resolution is never the goal. I’m interested in the tension between control and release, refinement and disruption, and how those opposing forces can exist within a single surface. ​ Rather than conceal the process, I build through it. Layers are scraped back, unearthed, and reworked. Marks are buried and rediscovered. What remains…the fragments, edits, and remnants, becomes the foundation of the piece. Each painting carries a visible history, as if it has been excavated rather than simply made. ​ I often incorporate raw or unprimed canvas and torn elements from previous works, creating compositions that are assembled as much as they are painted. These fragments function like a visual language, constructed piece by piece where nothing is wasted and everything is recontextualized.   Underlying many of the works is a quiet structure: a suggestion of grids, divisions, or shifting planes that hold moments of chaos in place. This balance between order and disruption allows the work to feel both grounded and in flux. I use the landscape not as something to depict, but as something to dismantle…breaking it into fragments, reassembling it through gesture and material until it exists as a felt experience rather than a fixed place.   Each painting becomes a record of presence and permission. Permission to follow instinct. Permission to leave evidence. Permission to allow something unresolved to hold weight.