My work begins with a contradiction: the desire for purity and the impossibility of erasing what has been lived.
For much of my life, I understood purification as a process of release — of removing what obscures our essential nature. Over time, I came to recognize that freedom does not require the disappearance of our history. What we have lived remains within us, even when its emotional weight has been released.
This understanding has become inseparable from my artistic practice.
I work through accumulation, construction, disruption and concealment. Colour and matter are built into the surface, then gradually transformed beneath layers of white. Earlier gestures remain, sometimes visible, sometimes perceptible only through the irregularities they leave behind.
I am interested in the difference between an untouched surface and one that has arrived at stillness through experience.
The white does not restore the canvas to its beginning. It carries everything that preceded it.
I do not create to communicate a predetermined message. I want each painting to develop a life of its own, one that can be felt before it is understood. Whatever recognition may follow belongs to the person encountering it.