Artist statement.

⬤ After the unexpected death of my father at the age of thirteen, I stepped away from art school and began using the camera to catch moments as they passed — to hold onto something that felt unstable. ⬤ Photography became a place where I could look at the world without having to fully be in it — a way to hold life still long enough to breathe.

⬤ Years later, after immigrating to the United States and engaging in therapy, I began returning to the wound I had long avoided. ⬤ I needed a way to process the tension I had been carrying my entire life — not just document it.

⬤ Painting gave me that space.

⬤ I now work with photographs not to reproduce them but to break them open. ⬤ I distort, stretch, and paint over them with my hands, allowing new meanings to surface. ⬤ The captured moment becomes raw material rather than fixed truth. ⬤ I’m interested in how an image can shift when it’s taken apart, rebuilt, or pushed into a different context.

⬤ Some works stem from quiet memories; others from fleeting everyday scenes. ⬤ Yet the undercurrent remains consistent — a dialogue between anxiety and the search for clarity. ⬤ When an image appears abstract, it still holds the trace of something lived. ⬤ Not everything is visible, but everything has a source.