Artist Statement

Artist Statement

My work explores the relationship between sensation and perception through layered contour drawings rendered in acrylic or ink. Each mark responds to a tactile impulse—gesture, memory, or momentary observation—while simultaneously resisting narrative clarity. These drawings often present human figures and spaces, yet they evade easy categorization or cohesion. Instead, they challenge the viewer’s instinct to group, organize, and resolve.

Rooted in the language of abstraction, the drawings reflect a tension between the felt and the interpreted: sensation as the immediate, raw stimulus; perception as the cognitive framework we impose to make sense of it. I was struck by a line in an old textbook describing perception as "an organized response to the total of something." This idea of totality—our compulsion to unify disparate parts—becomes a point of resistance in my practice.

The overlapping figures and fragmented contours in my work invite the viewer to oscillate between seeing the whole and acknowledging the parts. There is continuity in line and rhythm, but also disruption. Rather than offering a singular image, I aim to present accumulations—visual records of encounters, traces of presence, and interruptions of order. The work is not about resolution, but about sustained looking, about allowing the viewer to linger in the complexity of visual sensation.