MY RESUME:

artist’s statement:

I make work from excess: of color, thought, sensation, and time.

My practice grows out of a mind that rarely settles. Attention drifts, fixates, overloads, and resets, sometimes all at the same time. I work within that instability rather than against it, allowing images to accumulate through layering, repetition, and interruption. Paint, collage, and pattern stack until the surface feels on the verge of collapse. I’m drawn to that moment, when the image holds itself together just barely, vibrating with possibility.

My process is immersive and often compulsive. I don’t wait for inspiration or clarity; I enter the work and let it guide me forward. Making becomes a way of thinking out loud: fast, nonlinear, and physical. Systems emerge through repeated gestures and patterns, only to be disrupted by clashing colors, visual noise, or abrupt shifts in scale. Control and surrender exist side by side. Neither fully wins.

There is something deeply personal in this push and pull. I’ve spent years negotiating between overstimulation and numbness, learning how to stay present inside intensity without dulling it. The surface becomes a record of that negotiation. Every layer is a trace of attention—where it lingered, where it fractured, where it returned.

I think of maximalism not as decoration, but as a strategy for survival. An insistence on fullness. A refusal to simplify experience into something quieter or more polite. My work doesn’t offer resolution or rest; it invites viewers to sit inside density, to feel slightly overwhelmed, and to keep looking anyway.

Although my practice continues to absorb new influences from the world around me, movement, collaboration, constant noise, it remains rooted in immersion. The work expands outward by accumulation rather than refinement. Meaning is not something I arrive at in advance; it emerges through doing, through staying with the work long enough for it to reveal itself.

I don’t know exactly where my work is heading. I know only that it keeps growing, layer by layer, direction by direction, carrying with it every trace of attention that formed it. My work remembers everything.