Artists statement

My work is deeply rooted in identity, memory, and emotional landscapes. As a child, I moved frequently, absorbing different cultures and adapting to new environments. This transient upbringing shaped how I interpret the world and form my sense of self—one that often felt distinct from my peers. This divergence influences not only my perception of identity but also the way I communicate through art.

I experience emotions with intense polarity, and this duality manifests in my work. My art serves as both an inner dialogue and an exploration of identity beyond conventional definitions. It’s not just about asking, “Who am I?” but rather, “What am I?”—a selfhood shaped by trauma, displacement, and transformation. Through my practice, I explore emotions, memories, and subconscious layers of experience.

Working with mixed media allows me to translate complex emotions and fragmented memories into visual form through texture, colour, movement, and effect. This layering of meaning mirrors the way emotions and past experiences intertwine, often in unexpected and contradictory ways.

While my work often explores dark and difficult themes—challenging ideas of morality, innocence, disillusionment, mortality, conflict, and isolation—it is not solely defined by them. There is also space for curiosity, playfulness, absurdity, and the joy of adventure. I embrace contrast, allowing space for both the heavy and the light, much like nature; time, memory and the unknown.

My work seeks to provoke emotion—whether uplifting, unsettling, or ambiguous. It demands engagement, aiming to act as a catalyst for inspiration, reflection or imagination.

For me, art is both a refuge and a reckoning—a voice where language fails, a space where contradictions can coexist and echo into the unknown, searching for connection, understanding, and something beyond. It is where truth and illusion intertwine, giving form to what is often unspoken.