Artist Statement
My work is built from layers of photographs I take, drawings I create, both traditional and digital, and textures.
Visual details come from pieces most people overlook, urban textures, natural elements, mundane weathered objects, crumpled papers.
All in all moments and objects that pass unnoticed. I capture them with my camera or a quick sketch and later, I transform them into something conceptually new, such as an abstract figure, a surreal world, an idea, an emotion, or an image with hidden meaning.
I’m equally drawn to photography in its experimental form. I work with my phone and digital cameras, distorting reality through intentional movement, double or multiple exposures, experimental light, or the use of special artistic lenses.
These photos, either as standalone, or when blended into my conceptual photographic works, carry the same intention. That is to express what words cannot, and go beyond documenting the world around me. They are intended to be emotional carvings of a place, a memory, or a state of the psyche.
My art is how I process life and experience the world around me. It is how I preserve what feels beautiful and survive what is not. This is why I am open to exploring different media and techniques.
My artistic work needs to follow my creative spark and allow inspiration to find its unique expression through intuitive, deeply conceptual edits and emotive layered visuals.
This is the reason why my aesthetic is often influenced by surrealism, why desolation and beauty, fragility and resilience can exist within the same work, and why symbolism, metaphor, and allegory are central to my visual narrative.