Statement

I am interested in the ways light, material, and perception shape our experience of the natural world. Using mineral pigments, oxidized metals, soil, ink, and handmade surfaces, I create layered works that emerge through accumulation, erosion, reflection, and transformation.

My process is materially driven and intentionally collaborative with the behavior of the materials themselves. Through repeated layering, oxidation, staining, and veiling, the surfaces shift between image and abstraction, allowing reflections, depth, and spatial relationships to remain unstable. I am drawn to moments where forms dissolve and perception becomes uncertain.

Many of my pigments are made from locally gathered shells, rocks, and soils, deepening my engagement with place and time. Rather than fully controlling the outcome, I allow the interactions between minerals, metals, binders, and water to influence the final image. The work develops slowly through a sustained dialogue between material process and observation.

Influenced by traditional Japanese mineral pigment painting as well as long-term observation of coastal landscapes and tidal environments, my practice explores the relationship between physical transformation and perception. I hope the work invites sustained attention and creates space for quiet sensory and emotional experience.