STATEMENT OF WORK

My work stems from an ongoing exploration of human connection and how it begins, evolves, and forms collective society. I examine the expanding possibilities through the abstraction of the body. By dissolving boundaries between the figure and landscape, I invite viewers to reconsider the human body not as a fixed form, but as a dynamic space where identity, memory, and emotion originate.

Intertwined bodies float in undefined space, losing orientation as they dissolve into chaotic composites. Physical features are blended, erased, enlarged, connected, or dissected into multiple layers. Magnified to a molecular level, flesh unfolds into unidentifiable forms. Through abstraction, the body becomes a site of inquiry, questioning identity, social norms, and our understandings of distinctions. Their relationship to space reveals dichotomies: self versus other; freedom versus social expectation; rationality versus unconsciousness; individuality versus collectivity. 

The bodies are born from life, with the duality of presence and absence. Navigating our reality of violence, they show how one individual can extinguish another’s life entirely with such disregard. The clash between their fragile, soft bodies in conflict with hardened ego is shown. Slowly struggling forms seem uncertain whether they desire to strike one another or bind themselves more tightly together.

My process echoes these contradictions. I paint each layer distinctly until a hidden figure surfaces. Through selective erasure and enlargement, I trace the tension within the liminal space between bodies. In doing so, I visualize the interplay between internal struggles and broader social dynamics.