ARTIST STATEMENT

I am drawn to surfaces shaped by time. A wall where graffiti has dissolved into plaster after years of rain. A temple stone darkened by monsoon and the touch of countless hands. A canyon carved by the repeated movement of water. These places hold more than evidence of time. They hold what remains.

My paintings begin with layers of acrylic, loose weave fabric, and rice paper. I build the surface slowly, then scrape, veil, bury, and reveal. What emerges is not an image imposed upon the surface, but one discovered within it.

I call these works Humanscapes because they are landscapes of our interior lives. Like weathered stone or eroded walls, we are formed through accumulation. We inherit histories we did not choose. We carry memory, love, grief, longing, and joy. Some of it settles into view. Some of it slips beneath the surface.

I am interested in what remains hidden but never disappears.

Again and again I find the same sweet presence. Something tender. Something luminous. Not untouched by life, but made visible through it.

My paintings are an invitation to pause, to look beneath the surface, and perhaps to recognize something that has always been there.