Artist Statement

My work exists in the "twilight zone"—a liminal psychological battleground where personal memory, collective societal promises, and existential dread collide. Through my paintings, I explore the friction between the optimistic, techno-utopian dreams of my youth and the haunting reality of modern anxiety, creating a visual bridge that spans both time and technique.
At the core of my creative process is the excavation of an internal archive of repressed childhood memories. I begin each canvas blindly, utilizing automatic drawing and a monochromatic grisaille layer to bypass conscious resistance. From this raw foundation, unbidden imagery spontaneously projects from my subconscious. This method is deeply rooted in Sigmund Freud’s concept of the Uncanny (Das Unheimliche), wherein the intimately familiar is abruptly and violently rendered alien.
The resulting narratives are populated by a specific iconography: circus imagery, jesters, mechanical apparatuses reverse writing and others, all suspended within implicit viewer spaces that demand active psychological participation. These motifs give shape to a "denatured nostalgia"—a bittersweet, heavy yearning tangled with feelings of childhood awkwardness, institutional manipulation, and the slow expiration of 20th-century idealism.
As these deeply personal, nostalgic themes converge with an acute ambivalence toward rising technology and ongoing ontological uncertainty, the canvas becomes a site of dynamic vacillation. To mirror this thematic tension, my painterly language bridges disparate worlds, blending the formal discipline of traditional Western European oil painting with the vibrant, stylized sensibilities of modern animation. Ultimately, my work is a testament to the impossibility of erasing the past, serving as an anchor for the anxious mind caught between what was promised and what is to come.