Texts
Essays, artist statements, and narrative texts that accompany and extend the visual practice.
Artist Statement — 2025
"The table is never just a table. It is the hours my mother spent standing, the language she carried from another country, the silence between what we could say and what we couldn't. To paint the table is to paint the conditions of love under pressure."
Essay — 2024
"What does it mean to belong to a country that has never fully decided whether it belongs to you? This is the question at the center of the work—not as rhetoric, but as lived condition. The paintings hold the ambiguity without resolving it."
Essay — 2023
"The first language is the body's language. Before words, before syntax, there is gesture—the way a hand reaches across a table, the way a back bends toward labor, the way eyes meet or refuse to meet."
Artist Statement — 2023
"Poetic, Symbolic, Realist—these are not categories but orientations. They describe not what the work looks like, but how it thinks. A single painting can be all three simultaneously, depending on where you enter it."
Catalogue Essay — 2022
"The domestic interior has always been a contested space—simultaneously private refuge and site of unpaid labor, site of tenderness and of power. My work enters this space not to resolve its contradictions but to make them visible."