STATEMENT OF WORK

My work centers on the immaterial and the spectral, with elements such as sunlight, shadows, and smoke. These subjects are both firmly part of the everyday, but can also easily shift their identity into the realm of the uncanny and menacing. I see my paintings functioning as small stages—tightly framed spaces that hold a wide range of imagery, spanning from the deeply personal to the collective, and from the mundane to the horrific. 

My paintings are typically small-scale, created with oil paint on materials like jute and linen, whose rough, textured surfaces and irregular weaves create a tension with the painted images. I also work on panel, a surface that emphasizes detail and solidity, allowing for physical interventions like scraping and sanding. I use thin washes of paint and tools like scrapers and rags to build the surface, leaving earlier layers partially visible. This process creates a sense of ambiguity, shifting between the familiar and the uncanny.

In recent years my work has been inspired by books like Anna Kavan’s Ice, Marlene Haushofer’s The Wall  and Guido Morselli’s Dissipatio H.G. Each captures the strangeness and precarity of life in the Anthropocene and their use of uncanny, climate-related imagery has influenced many of my paintings. From the usage of unnatural colors and light, to the placement of specific symbols, many of my paintings draw direct throughlines to the aforementioned books and their reflections on a mutating climate.