Artist Statement

My work investigates the body and its surroundings as a site of gathering – where physical sensation, interiority, and spiritual attention are held. I create fields in which form resists narration and instead sustains pressure – physical, spiritual, or psychological. Through painting and sculpture, I work with restrained gesture, limited palettes, and structural frameworks to situate the figure within containers of gestation, allowing presence to emerge over time. Edges soften or break within environments that breathe while overlapping elements suggest multiples states held simultaneously. 

Paint, cement, and surface are not descriptive tools but materials that carry weight, opacity, resistance. The figure may appear simplified, fragmented, or partially withheld, allowing space, structure, and material behavior to do as much work as anatomy.

Meaning emerges through tension – between figure and ground, movement and stillness, presence and absence. Influenced by both figurative traditions and modernist ideas of structure and containment, I am interested in how a body can be held by structure without being explained by it. Repetition, reduction, and subtle variation allow each work to function as a sustained inquiry.