ARTIST STATEMENT:

My work investigates perception, how the mind assembles visual information into meaning, and how that process shapes our sense of self within social and collective identity. I begin with the premise that what we see is never purely optical; it is cognitive, filtered through memory, pattern recognition, and the boundaries we construct to feel oriented, protected, and whole. Shadows are a primary catalyst in this research. They are inorganic stimuli—intangible, weightless, and yet profoundly authoritative in how they alter visual reality. A shadow can function as an implied border, producing a convincing sense of edge, depth, and separation without material presence. I am drawn to this contradiction: the immaterial that organizes the material, the unseen that governs what is seen. Within shadows’ complex systems of shape and spatial relationships, I deconstruct and reassemble forms into geometric fragments—lines, planes, and repeating structures that suggest both architecture and anatomy. Through these reconstructed configurations, I apply visible boundaries that test the delicate interchange between what holds together and what dissolves from view. The idea of boundaries extends into the psychological and political: boundaries can protect, exclude, regulate, and—when pushed to extremes—become instruments of control. In my abstractions, decisive control (or the lack of it) becomes an analogy for lived experience: the attempt to govern what cannot be governed, and the eventual necessity of drawing a line to preserve integrity. More recently, patterns have begun to play a larger role in my work, aligning with systems and shared constraints. Layers have become both method and metaphor: strata of order against perceived chaos, a record of accumulation, rupture, repair, and return. By bringing diverse media into unexpected collaboration, I build surfaces that invite close inspection and sustained contemplation, offering viewers a visceral space to recognize their own thresholds: where they connect, where they separate, and what they choose to hold.