Artist statement 

My work is driven by an ongoing inquiry into how we make sense of the world we inhabit, how we seek to bring order to it and imbue it with meaning. I am particularly interested in the encounter between everyday reality and the systems of images, symbols, stories, and beliefs through which we understand the world and our place within it.

I am drawn to moments when the boundaries between the tangible and the mythical, the personal and the collective, the mundane and the sublime become permeable. Cultural and symbolic systems do not exist merely as abstract ideas or inherited traditions; they remain active forces in our lives, shaping how we see, remember, behave, and imagine ourselves. Their influence is sometimes conscious and apparent, but it can also operate beneath the surface, through gestures, images, and patterns of behavior we have absorbed without realizing it.

I am interested in the reciprocal relationship between people and these systems: in the ways they seek to impose their forms upon reality, while we, in turn, are drawn towards them, seeking to approach and sometimes align ourselves with the ideals they embody. This tension opens up questions about the relationships between matter and spirit, body and idea, and lived experience and the ways in which we seek to make sense of it.