Artist Statement

My practice moves between painting and writing, between image and narrative. I create portraits that are also dreamlike stories, exploring youth, androgyny, and desire while questioning the gaze that binds artist and subject. Although oil paint is my primary medium, each work begins with writing, sketches, and conceptual fragments. On canvas, I bring the classical and the contemporary into dialogue: figures may appear solid and carefully rendered, yet dissolve into abstract gestures at the edges, or shift into subtly distorted anatomies. These choices reflect a vision of identity as layered, fluid, and fragmented. My work invites viewers into a space of tension and intimacy, where the seen and the unseen overlap.

Each painting begins as a kind of quiet excavation: I collect fragments of narrative, poems, or dream notes, alongside graphite and charcoal studies that register posture, light, and atmosphere. This literary dimension is central to my practice. I am currently completing my first novel, a project that deepens and expands the narrative foundation of my visual work. These texts, together with drawings and preparatory sketches, form the hidden architecture of the paintings, allowing them to speak with both intimacy and ambiguity.