artist statement
My work focuses on urban environments as lived spaces - places defined by movement, structure, and fleeting human presence. I am drawn to everyday city scenes such as subway platforms, intersections, bridges, and streetscapes, where individuals briefly intersect with one another and the built environment. These moments, often overlooked, reveal quiet contradictions: pause vs. motion and isolation vs.connection within the rhythm of the city.
Trained in oil and figurative painting, my practice has evolved toward a more layered and tactile approach through collage and mosaic. This shift allows me to build images through fragmentation and reconstruction, mirroring the visual density and constant motion of urban life. Architectural lines, signage, transit systems, and repeated patterns become as central to the composition as the figures themselves, emphasizing the balance between human presence and the structures that contain it.
The process of breaking, cutting, and reassembling materials reflects the inconsistencies inherent in the city—order and chaos, permanence and impermanence, beauty and wear. Constructing each piece fragment by fragment is an intentional and labor-intensive act that parallels the way urban spaces are continuously shaped, used, and redefined.
Recent work incorporates reclaimed and recycled materials, often sourced from discarded objects. These materials carry their own histories and textures, echoing the layered narratives of the city itself. By transforming overlooked materials into urban scenes, I aim to give form to the resilience, complexity, and quiet humanity found within everyday city life.