Biography
My work is deeply rooted in drawing and painting. I constantly work in my journals, which serve as a place to document my surroundings and work out pictures on a small scale. My interest in the urban environment and its inherent birth and decay serves as the dominant inspiration through most of my work. The urban landscape is personified by its constantly changing and shifting facade. Layers and textures are built up, torn down and obscured repetitively, constantly changing the original intention into something completely different, yet perfectly attune to what I feel or aspire to feel. Images are often deleted and painted over, but their presence is not completely hidden. There is a play between interior and exterior and growth and decay, both in terms of imagery, text, and meaning. Text is often built up as texture and as a subtext to the imagery. I take depictions of scenes, objects, and people around me, and recast them as visual metaphors, within larger works that talk about psychology, struggle, love, and life. My work, instead of providing a distinct conclusion, operates more as a catalyst for questions, discourse and ways of seeing.
