Artist Statement
My paintings explore the boundaries between the individual and environment, the porous edges between internal and external states. I paint the entirety of a visual or mental energetic field as I perceive it, without separation of form from space. Through vibrant palettes and dynamic, intuitive brushstrokes, I create immersive visual fields that resist fixed interpretation, evoking the infinite recomposition of the individual through the presence and rupture of form. I paint the experience of being drawn in towards something from afar, the magnetic pull to come closer. Moving towards the painting unveils continuous detail and surprises with new patterns, catching the viewer in a loop of visual fascination. Up close, individual marks may seem dissonant; yet in aggregate, they resolve into a resonant whole, echoing the layered and relational nature of human individuality itself.
My paintings are a deliberate reaction to the rise of AI systems that shape so much of contemporary culture. Trained on vast datasets, these AI systems reflect society’s categorical frameworks of what has been seen, named with definitions and boundaries, and archived in binaries. My work seeks to operate outside those systems, models, and predetermined datasets, to reject those frameworks. In my paintings, what AI might define as “object” ceases to hold true. There are no edges to parse, no boundaries to categorize, no binary by which to assign a 1 or 0. Instead, I aim to create a visual system rooted in human instinct, immediacy, and the childlike impulse to create without reference to an accumulation of information and data. My painting challenges the technological status quo and reasserts the primacy of human intuition, sensory experience, and the multiplicity of possible ways of being.