STATEMENT OF WORK

My practice draws upon the raw material of my own body, experiences and emotions to explore themes of intimacy, desire, and loss. Yet my intention is not to narrate a personal history or offer an autobiographical account. Rather, my work becomes a site of inquiry—a space in which I examine the entanglements between the self and the world, between private experience and broader existential questions.

Therefore, in my creative process, I engage in a kind of alchemy—fictionalizing lived experience in order to stretch and transform it. The work may appear confessional, yet it resists confession. It may evoke queerness, but not as a fixed identity to be pinned down. What emerges is not a mirror of my life, but an articulation of vulnerability—where personal truth becomes a vessel for shared reflection on sexuality, masculinity, and the fractured self.

While my visual expression is rooted in realism, I am drawn to a theatrical approach to image-making through the language of cinema—staging, distortion, and omission—while employing light and sound to compose atmospheric scenes imbued with psychological depth. What interests me is not the center, but the margin; not the named, but the anonymous; not authentic, but performed; not presence, but absence; not the familiar, but the foreign. As such, my practice interrogates the power dynamics between the subject and the spectator within the history of image-making. It is not a mode of measurement or classification, but an act of resistance, survival, and becoming.