Who I am
I am a contemporary figurative artist working across drawing, digital media, and mixed forms. My practice centers on the human figure as a site of internal experience, using line, color, and distortion to explore identity, memory, and emotional states.
Rather than aiming for traditional likeness, I approach portraiture as a psychological process. Faces become landscapes, bodies become environments, and form is treated as something fluid, shaped as much by perception and feeling as by physical reality. The figures in my work are not meant to represent specific individuals, but rather emotional conditions, internal narratives, and shifting states of being.
A defining element of my practice is the use of intricate contour line work. These lines function like topographical maps, tracing the surface of the figure while suggesting deeper layers beneath. I am interested in how repetition, distortion, and fragmentation can visually echo the ways we experience thought, memory, and identity, nonlinear, overlapping, and constantly in motion.
My work often moves between realism and abstraction, blending traditional mark-making with digital processes. This hybrid approach allows me to explore how identity shifts across mediums and spaces, and how technology can become a tool for emotional expression rather than detachment. Whether working in graphite, paint, or digital form, I treat each piece as an experiment in translating internal experience into visual language.
Color plays a significant role in this translation. Saturated palettes, optical patterns, and exaggerated contrasts are used to heighten emotional tone and disrupt visual comfort. I am drawn to moments where beauty and discomfort coexist, where the image feels both inviting and unsettled, familiar and altered.
At its core, my work is an exploration of presence: what it means to be seen, to be felt, and to exist in constant transformation. The figures I create exist somewhere between self and other, memory and imagination, surface and interior. Each piece is less a fixed statement and more a moment of becoming.