Artist Statement

My work exists in a liminal psychological battleground where personal memory, collective societal promises, and existential dread collide. I explore the friction between the optimistic, techno-utopian dreams of my youth and the haunting reality of current anxiety, creating a visual bridge that spans both time and technique.
At the core of my process is the excavation of an internal archive of repressed childhood memories. I begin each canvas blindly using automatic drawing and a monochromatic grisaille layer to bypass conscious resistance, allowing unbidden imagery to project spontaneously from my subconscious. Deeply rooted in Sigmund Freud’s concept of the Uncanny (Das Unheimliche), this method renders the intimately familiar abruptly and violently alien.
These narratives are populated by a distinct iconography—flying battleships, circus imagery, mechanical apparatuses, humanoids, reverse writing and so forth. These motifs give shape to a "denatured nostalgia," blending a heavy yearning with childhood awkwardness, institutional manipulation, and the slow expiration of 20th-century idealism.
To mirror this tension between nostalgia and technological awe, my painterly language bridges the formal discipline of traditional Western European oil painting with the vibrant sensibilities of modern animation—anchoring the anxious mind between what was promised and what is to come.