2025/ NEW WORK

My paintings explore how meaning is constructed from fragments. I bring together images, blocks of color, and sampled text to create compositions that are both familiar and uncertain. Individual fragments may carry their own associations, but when placed together they become a puzzle of understood things. I am interested in the power of an image to grab our attention and the possibility of redirecting that attention through painting. The paintings function almost like a Rorschach test: the fragments provide points of recognition, while the spaces between them invite the viewer to make connections of their own. Nostalgia, desire, memory, and other associations can surface, but the meaning remains open. I am interested in that space between recognition and uncertainty, where looking becomes a process of discovery.