Grappling with personal questions of purpose, consciousness, and existence, my work explores the duality of the metaphysical and the perceivable truth. I seek inspiration from the world around me, with an interest in the patterns and flow present in both nature and architecture. Examining their similarities through an exploration into the physicality of materials and the obscure metaphysical. I am also interested in how these existential questions manifest in art history, mythology, and our day-to-day interactions. Combining from all of these sources, I create works that at once seem both tangible and illusory. Using paint and re-purposed materials to construct and deconstruct the concepts of painting by producing a pulsating sublime landscape that becomes both idea and object, employing vivid colors and geometric elements that are both compelling and discomforting. This refers also to intangible barriers that separate our visual understanding of the complexities of existence and the mechanics of the universe. Deconstructing this “veil” in order to find a language that unites both our ever growing knowledge base of the universe through empirical science, and the intuitive metaphysical, both of which are trying to explain the vast unknown within the context of human understanding. In this process, I push the understanding of space and transition between the second and third dimension. I am interested in large scale pieces, which for me, are important in the context of the emotional responses to religious works of art, such as Hindu and Buddhist mandalas, Christian altarpieces, and Islamic architectural geometry.
Grappling with personal questions of purpose, consciousness, and existence, my work explores the duality of the metaphysical and the perceivable truth. I seek inspiration from the world around me, with an interest in the patterns and flow present in both nature and architecture. Examining their similarities through an exploration into the physicality of materials and the obscure metaphysical. I am also interested in how these existential questions manifest in art history, mythology, and our day-to-day interactions. Combining from all of these sources, I create works that at once seem both tangible and illusory. Using paint and re-purposed materials to construct and deconstruct the concepts of painting by producing a pulsating sublime landscape that becomes both idea and object, employing vivid colors and geometric elements that are both compelling and discomforting. This refers also to intangible barriers that separate our visual understanding of the complexities of existence and the mechanics of the universe. Deconstructing this “veil” in order to find a language that unites both our ever growing knowledge base of the universe through empirical science, and the intuitive metaphysical, both of which are trying to explain the vast unknown within the context of human understanding. In this process, I push the understanding of space and transition between the second and third dimension. I am interested in large scale pieces, which for me, are important in the context of the emotional responses to religious works of art, such as Hindu and Buddhist mandalas, Christian altarpieces, and Islamic architectural geometry.
