I am drawn to scenes that evoke precarity, liminality, and existential reflection. My work explores the pre-reflective, affective states that underlie these themes. Visual art occupies a unique position in its ability to access such states. As someone with a doctorate in philosophy, I am especially interested in the pre-reflective and non-discursive conditions that form the background of philosophical inquiry. My painting practice serves as a means of exploring and inhabiting these foundational states.

Philosophically, my work is motivated by an interest in the affective roots of reflection. Rather than communicating ideas through explicit narrative or symbolism, I aim to evoke experiential states—mystery, sublimity, uncertainty, mortality—that precede language and conceptual thought. My work steers the viewer into an existential register from which meaning emerges. I seek to open a space in which meaning is felt before it is articulated.  This is a liminal space between darkness and light where things first appear before they can be conceptualized.   

Ultimately, my practice seeks to create visual experiences that operate as existential meditations, offering viewers a moment of stillness in which to confront and reflect on the mystery, precarity, and wonder of being in this world.