Looking Deeper

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Plant Stem Cross Section. 48" x 48," 2025.

As a kid, I remember feeling disappointed the first time I saw art in a museum.“It’s just paint smeared on a canvas?”I wanted the whole story—not just what the artist was depicting (portrait, landscape, etc.), but how, why, and where the work came into being.

Growing up on National Geographic, 80s pop culture, and with an obsessive curiosity, I became fascinated not only with creation, but with creators. That curiosity led me to study the careers of other artists—and eventually to join the profession myself.

From an early age, I wanted to be original and to speak with an authentic voice. Standing out in a suburban environment wasn’t difficult. Hard dye, punk rock, and irregular reading interests introduced me to eccentric personalities, alternative creative methods, and marginalized cultural elements. I was rebellious, drawn to testing limits—always willing to navigate unexplored territory in search of the thing I’d been chasing from the start: my own artistic voice.

Being introduced to museums early on, I spent days and nights consuming books and information with a frantic need to absorb fuel that would ultimately power my artwork. I had a lot to say, but I felt unable to communicate it with pencil and paint alone.

It wasn’t until my thesis year at university that I created my Serialist medium. That eureka moment only came after years of failed attempts, personal perseverance, and a deep desire to communicate the complex way I experience the world. Serialism became not just a method, but a reflection of how I think—an amalgamation of all my obsessions, art, research, and lived experience into a single universal visual language.

A painting can be a portal, a microscope, or a mirror. I’ve always wanted my work to represent not only how I see the world, but how the world sees me. Exposing myself while peeling back the curtain on my subjects—through in-depth research, problem-solving, and complex artistic processes—I create meta-maximalist works that are dense, bold, and unapologetically information-heavy. These kaleidoscopic constructions mirror our current visually distracted, frenetic, dopamine-deficient culture—an optical overload of line, form, shape, and context for the viewer to decipher.

Historically, my focus has been on cultural and pop-culture icons. This cellular cross-section of a plant stem marks a new direction in my practice. Turning toward the natural world, I will now explore microscopic elements to investigate what appears abstract elements, translating it into representational, balanced, and structurally driven mixed-media compositions.

Producing portraits from the products, environments, and systems surrounding my subjects has always been rewarding—revealing not only what makes them who they are, but what draws me to them. Now, I’m shifting that curiosity inward and outward simultaneously—toward what we, and the world itself, are truly made of.

I look forward to exploring these new universes and sharing what I discover with you along the way.

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