statements
Title: Shadow and Flesh
Description:
Shadow and Flesh is a series of charcoal drawings based on X-ray images of gunshot wounds, navigating the uneasy terrain where beauty and horror converge. Through the stark interplay of light and shadow, the work explores our complex relationship with violence—how it is consumed, aestheticized, and memorialized in art, media, and history. Created through a slow, meditative process, each piece invites prolonged contemplation, challenging the rapid-fire consumption of photographic imagery. The drawings evoke a quiet intensity, asking viewers to confront the duality within: the coexistence of attraction and repulsion, presence and absence, life and death. It leaves us suspended—between image and emotion, beauty and brutality.
Title: Load
Description:
This series of paintings, titled Load, features skeletal forms—referencing Renaissance anatomical drawings, such as those by Andreas Vesalius—emerging against dark, infinite backgrounds. Animated and expressive, these skeletons carry an unseen burden: the weight of human presence, emotion, and interdependence.
Rooted in the Memento Mori tradition, the works explore the universal human condition through the symbol of the skeleton—stripped of identity, yet profoundly human. The figures support a metaphorical load: the emotional, psychological, and societal weights we place upon one another. Though the bodies themselves are absent, their presence is felt—made visible through the strain and posture of the bone structures.
Description:
Shadow and Flesh is a series of charcoal drawings based on X-ray images of gunshot wounds, navigating the uneasy terrain where beauty and horror converge. Through the stark interplay of light and shadow, the work explores our complex relationship with violence—how it is consumed, aestheticized, and memorialized in art, media, and history. Created through a slow, meditative process, each piece invites prolonged contemplation, challenging the rapid-fire consumption of photographic imagery. The drawings evoke a quiet intensity, asking viewers to confront the duality within: the coexistence of attraction and repulsion, presence and absence, life and death. It leaves us suspended—between image and emotion, beauty and brutality.
Title: Load
Description:
This series of paintings, titled Load, features skeletal forms—referencing Renaissance anatomical drawings, such as those by Andreas Vesalius—emerging against dark, infinite backgrounds. Animated and expressive, these skeletons carry an unseen burden: the weight of human presence, emotion, and interdependence.
Rooted in the Memento Mori tradition, the works explore the universal human condition through the symbol of the skeleton—stripped of identity, yet profoundly human. The figures support a metaphorical load: the emotional, psychological, and societal weights we place upon one another. Though the bodies themselves are absent, their presence is felt—made visible through the strain and posture of the bone structures.