ARTIST STATEMENT

My work explores the emotional architecture of the human body through the act of embrace.I am interested in the moment when bodies begin to lose their separateness and merge into a shared emotional space. Through intertwined figures, I explore protection, vulnerability, longing, and the human need for connection.Rather than depicting specific identities, my paintings seek a universal emotional language. Bodies dissolve, overlap, and transform into vessels of memory, intimacy, and presence.Working primarily with mixed media on linen, I create images that move away from description toward feeling—spaces where tenderness and tension coexist.At the center of my practice is a simple question: what remains when words are no longer enough?”