Thoughts 2026

Excess, contradiction, and the unruly body. I make work when something in the world, or in the way we have pictured it, feels unresolved or wrong to me. We are shaped by forces we recognize and others we barely know are there-family, personal history, inherited traditions, and a culture whose values constantly shift. I want to question what we accept, what we carry forward, and what needs to be broken apart.

I begin with a conflict: beauty and brutality, desire and fear, freedom and control, visibility and erasure. What happens when the victim becomes dangerous, when beauty turns unsettling, when something wild breaks through? Who gets to be seen, whose contributions are acknowledged, and who gets written out of history?

I make paintings, photograph people in their own environments, stage unscripted actions, and construct situations others activate. The work is physical-hand against surface, body against body, directing, pushing, moving things around. I'm searching for a moment of recognition that can only emerge through the physical act of making.