Artist Statement
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I paint at the edge of figuration and abstraction, using portraits and icons of beauty as psychological triggers rather than subjects to reproduce. The work begins with something familiar: a face, a flower, and then breaks down into distortion, pressure, and paint.
I’m drawn to the moment when beauty becomes uneasy, when the image starts to fracture and reveals an emotional temperature underneath. The paintings are built in two movements: an intuitive first layer guided by sensation and material, followed by a deliberate architecture of circles and silhouettes that contain, interrupt, and reframe the chaos.
What remains is a portrait not of appearance, but of inner states, where vulnerability, desire, and tension coexist on the surface.The work accepts the viewer as they are, without judgment: the good, the bad, the dirty.