ARTIST STATEMENT

I am a self-taught artist exploring and preserving thresholds—where death and birth merge, where endings dissolve into beginnings, where disintegration becomes revelation. I have always felt like I was in between everything, and have spent my life so far trying to move on so I could be on the other side: a line labelled “success” or “done”, a side that could be easily placed and understood. But as I’ve explored my identity within context and science, I’ve learned that stars and flowers both have lifecycles, that the sky is both infinite and tiny, that everything is made of the same thing and that aliveness is a matter of time.

My art is a way of reconciling all of this and finding not only its beauty but its necessity as a precursor to progress and wonder. The ability to find wholeness in opposition. That the things we don’t know, and the uncertainty of it all, is not only a part of life, it is life itself. States are relative to scale, time, space. And we are almost always in the thick of it.

Emerging from a dialogue between contemplation and action, my mediums and techniques are shaped by the forces of physics; flow, dao, gravity. I’m constantly chasing the high of trying to capture the moment when structure yields to atmosphere, when form loses its boundaries but not its pulse.

In these moments, perception and feeling merge, and the world is experienced not as separate parts but as a continuous, living field we have a hand in shaping and in letting become what it will become. Collapse as a sign of life. The entirety of my art, in the end, is about aliveness.