05.11.24_12:35pm_Glogauer_Str. 16, 2024                                                                    Copper wire, found branch and leaf                                                                                        Various sizes

I am in dialogue with my everyday life through contemplation; I draw, paint, and make installations. My work is buoyant, modular, and transitory. I employ the motif of the horizon as a guiding structural event for contemplative movement. Throughout my paintings, the surface serves as an impermanent field of possibilities for affective translation and interconnectedness. The origin of my modular paintings is geometrically abstract, and I approach the representation of natural phenomena through intuitive mark-making. My process is meditative and tactile, allowing textural memories of places to emerge. Using oil-stick and concrete, I integrate architecture, spirituality, and sensory perception in what I term “haptic contemplative painting.” In my work, color is likewise material—a ubiquitous and perceivable substance that transmits the heart of everyday life. By distilling the complexity of the passage of time into the simple truth of the rise and fall of the sun, I focus on mindfully exploring the present moment, the changing conditions of light, and the sensory-perceptual components of memory.