Artist Statement

My work uses color, pattern, and form as a visual language to investigate systems that shape perception and embodied experience. Rather than depicting recognizable imagery, I construct fields of visual relationships in which chromatic vibration, repetition, and spatial tension activate responses that operate beyond language.

Earlier work engaged these concerns through more explicit imagery—drawing on the body, cultural symbols, and appropriated sources to examine how identity is constructed and internalized. In large-scale installations and figurative works, elements were combined, altered, and recontextualized to reveal underlying structures of meaning, particularly those shaping gendered experience.

Over time, this investigation has moved away from representation toward a more distilled visual language. I have been investigating systems of meaning for decades; the work now allows those systems to operate directly through perception, without reliance on imagery.

My process is intuitive and physically engaged. Through layering, gesture, and sustained attention, each work develops as a dynamic field in which elements interact and evolve. Across the work, visual form functions not as illustration, but as a means of transmitting experience—inviting the viewer into a direct, embodied encounter.