Artistic Statement
My work emerges from three things I have never been able to separate: art, research, and my own life. Art is the form my thinking takes, the place where I can ask questions that would make no sense in any other language.
I move between painting, video, performance, and installation. What draws me across these forms is a single question: how technology and social structures are reshaping what we feel, what we learn to accept, and what we stop noticing. Much of what is being normalized now is doing measurable damage. That recognition is not a distant observation for me; it is a pressure I work with inside.
The work tends to stay with what is uncomfortable to name: alienation, instability, trained passivity, the kind of slow loss that happens to people without ever being called loss. I don't treat these as conclusions. I treat them as starting conditions, as the ground from which a question can actually begin.
Underneath all of this is something I haven't been able to reason myself out of: the conviction that we remain capable of better. The digital revolution has unsettled us deeply, and what I see around me is often hard to witness. And yet I believe the generations coming after us, with the tools they command, will make this a more livable place. Some will call that naive. For me, it is the only position from which I can genuinely work.
I don't work from despair. I work from a kind of stubborn trust. That art can tell the truth without evacuating hope. That people change, slowly and against the odds. That communities hold, even when they fray.
The work is a conversation between conscience and the systems we inhabit, between what we control and what we must trust, between vulnerability and the things we keep doing regardless.
"Faith is necessary, even in the smallest things. Without faith, man cannot even stand."
Friedrich Nietzsche