My practice explores processes of transformation through painting and abstraction. Nature does not appear as landscape, but as a medium through which energy can be accessed and transformed. Each work unfolds as a living field where forces in motion manifest through matter and color.

The painting emerges through a process of listening—between what moves through me and what the material calls for. I work with acrylic, oil, dry pastel, oil pastel, and spray to build dense layers, where color operates as energy in motion. Colors call upon other colors, gestures activate tension across the surface, and the image reveals itself through the process.

The act of painting approaches a ritual gesture: with each brushstroke, each mark, a new layer is activated. The work develops as a sequence of actions and responses, where time, body, and material exist within the same dynamic.

The work comes to a close when this process reaches its limit within a given time and space. This ending does not mark the disappearance of the energy that generated it, but rather its temporary condensation into the form of the painting.

My work seeks to render visible immaterial states—forces of transformation, memory, and spirituality that move through human experience and find in painting a space for manifestation.

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