Statement
I live and work on the East Coast, where proximity to the ocean deeply influences my work's form and content. I’ve long been fascinated by the unseen worlds beneath the water’s surface—especially the sea floor—and how its textures, rhythms, and colors mirror human emotions and ecological systems. My abstract paintings draw inspiration from this submerged landscape, translating it into layered compositions that often resemble weather maps. These swirling forms suggest environmental turbulence, reflecting natural phenomena and the emotional weather of human life.
Abstraction allows me to work intuitively, responding to movement, material, and memory in a personal and universal way. I use it to collapse distinctions between the inner and natural worlds—psychological and ecological. The aesthetics of Abstract Expressionism, Color Field Painting, and Graffiti Art influence my process. Still, my visual language emerges primarily from lived experience and material exploration.
My paintings evolve through a physical and layered process, including pouring, splashing, sanding, and smearing fluid gestures, which create a sensorial experience that envelops viewers. I think of this act not as a performance in the theatrical sense but as a choreography—an embodied dialogue between myself, the materials, and the surface. These actions produce immersive works that shift in appearance as the viewer moves, evoking the mutability of memory and topography. Colorful, dynamic gestures oscillate between layers, revealing different dimensions and varied perceptions of time. I build an internal glow through layers that suggests light emerging from within. This is achieved by blending hand-mixed pigments and resins to create vivid, luminous surfaces with a soft matte texture that references the subtlety of gouache but is acrylic.
In all its instability and mystery, the ocean floor is both subject and metaphor in my work. I’m drawn to its layered, constantly shifting terrain—a visual parallel to the psychological layers of human experience. My compositions reference coral formations, sediment patterns, and the geological forces that shape the seabed, echoing the way memory and emotion shape our inner landscapes. The resemblance to weather maps is intentional: both visualize invisible systems, whether atmospheric or emotional, ecological or personal.
By abstracting these forms, I invite viewers to enter ambiguous spaces where distinctions between nature and self blur. I’m especially interested in challenging the perceived divide between humans and nature—a false duality contributing to environmental disconnection. My work suggests that the same complexity and fragility found in ecosystems also exist within us. In this way, each painting becomes a meditation on interconnectedness, change, and resilience.
Global warming and ecological collapse are the defining challenges of our time. My work addresses these concerns not through direct narrative or imagery but by fostering emotional resonance and reflective space. Abstraction offers a unique capacity to engage viewers viscerally and imaginatively, opening pathways for empathy, contemplation, and reconnection to the planet.
These paintings don’t offer solutions but create new spaces for stillness, time, recognition, and dialogue. They are visual invitations to consider what it means to live responsibly, to feel deeply, and to imagine new relationships between ourselves and the Earth.