Into The Aether

HAVE YOU EVER COME REALLY CLOSE TO DEATH?

If you have, then you know that it changes you.

These works began not as a collection or creative direction, but as necessary journaling -- a way to give form to the emotions that had nowhere else to go. In that moment, painting became the most direct language I had. Against a field of black that represented the void of the mind -- vast and unknowable -- vivid, expressive strokes flared and then receded, like thoughts and memories surfacing very briefly only to disappear again.

Only in hindsight do these works reveal themselves as a turning point -- the moment where my subconsciousness began to step forward and influence what came next. They became the bridge to a new way of working, where the immaterial components of reality is no longer hidden but overlaid unto the everyday scenery