Statement

My paintings document site-specific, performative events that I stage in collaboration with people in my life. These gatherings, whether a devised play or a séance, are structured around shared fictions that evolve through repetition. Often drawing from historical myths and rituals (such as the Greek myth of Asclepius or the American folklore creature the Hidebehind), each story centers figures or characters that have been displaced or lost completely, unfolding across multiple iterations and retellings. Within this structure, I am interested in the dynamic interplay between personal and collective experience, and the ways the individual and the shared intersect, blur, and fragment over time.

In translating these ephemeral events into images, I focus on the gaps that emerge: how absence is evoked, and how representation mediates embodiment and collective experience. Each painting documents a distilled scene or character shaped by affective logics, where choices in composition, line, and color are guided by sensation and emotion rather than a strict mimetic translation. The process is both physical and cyclical, made and unmade through layered gestures of remembering and forgetting. I am particularly interested in what resists capture, what dissolves, and what persists only as trace. In this way, painting functions simultaneously as performance and document, probing the limits of translation and the threshold between presence and loss.