— Artist Statement

Familiarity through abstraction.

My work is about transformation and the reframing of the familiar. Ordinary images take on an ambiguous meaning when stripped of their context and resurfaced into new, kaleidoscopic form. Like a distant memory presenting itself in a déjà vu, the aim is to evoke implied, but equivocal narrative through abstraction. 

The current work starts with small, noir-like collages that are reproduced as large-scale charcoal drawings, and further transformed as cut works for both canvas and paper. Built up through improvised layers of acrylic paint, charcoal, cut canvas and paper, the resulting compositions are both formalist and representational, structured and chaotic.